New Poetry Collection by Karen Kevorkian

Here in My Body it Feels Crowded

“Packed with fleeting visual details, the poems in Karen Kevorkian’s deeply original Here in My Body it Feels Crowded feel at once intimate and observed from an eerie distance. Kevorkian skillfully places each image and gesture with both utter precision and the clearest eyes—in this way the poems enact small disarming worlds, entirely idiosyncratic, language stretching and collapsing on itself, self-inflicted compound words—pleasurably ungoverned sentences we let drift over us like clouds and accept as being made of the stuff of our very own world, if slant. Kevorkian reminds us, powerfully so, that the meaning of our lives—their poignancy and lushness, their arc of time, is built from noticing, and noticing is an art. I can’t remember the last time I read work so familiar yet strange.” 

—Louise Mathias