Kim Clark will be reading from and signing her new chapbook "Disease and Desire". Refreshments will be served and books available at $10 each.
About the book:
Disease and Desire is a manuscript of the body's domain and the spirit's will to fight the disease's abduction of the body, revealed through the first poem:
The Abduction
My body held poetry for ransom,
sinistral threat—
first with a little finger
[accidental pizzicato], next
my left foot.
The price was high, mind had to pay up
to make room for the lyric line.
The bootie crossed the blood-brain barrier,
[nothing to do with fair trade]
—poetic packets of plasma data
on the back of stealthy protein
hugged the perimeter,
stole through the interior
over the border—
words worth their weight
in myelin.
About Kim
Clark
Disease and
desire, mothering and the mundane propel Kim's ongoing journey between poetry
and prose. Her debut fiction collection, Attemptations (Caitlin Press),
was launched in 2011 and one of its novellas has been optioned for a 90 minute
feature film. Kim’s work can be found in Body Breakdowns (Anvil Press),
the Malahat Review, and e-zines and other publications in Canada and the
U.S.. She lives in Cedar on Vancouver Island.
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