These inventive and agonizing poems look, in heartbreaking paradox, to
language to explore its efforts and inadequacies, as they grapple with disintegrating
love and surging terror in modern society. Urgently, Kimberly Grey? explores the need for empathy and consolation?our
desire (and responsibility) as beings in the world to express the
inexpressible, comprehend the incomprehensible, bear the unbearable. Communing
throughout with literary forebearers?Anne Carson, Jack Gilbert, Sina Queyras
Gertrude Stein?Grey looks to build ?language systems? in order to help us
create relevant expressions for expressing awe, confusion, bewilderment,
nostalgia, horror, and joy.
