Kirsten Kaschock's Books

Sleight

By: Kirsten Kaschock

Write a review Read reviews Take a Quiz Solve Book Puzzle

Sisters Lark and Clef have spent their lives honing their bodies for sleight, an interdisciplinary art form that combines elements of dance, architecture, acrobatics, and spoken word. After being estranged for several years, the sisters are reunited by a deceptive and ambitious sleight troupe director named West who needs the sisters' opposing approaches to the form--Lark is tormented and fragile, but a prodigy; Clef is driven to excel, but lacks the spark of artistic genius. When a disturbing mass murder makes national headlines, West seizes on the event as inspiration for his new performance, one that threatens to destroy the very artists performing it. In language that is at once unsettling and hypnotic, Sleight explores ideas of performance, gender, and family to ask the question: what is the role of art in the face of unthinkable tragedy? Kirsten Kaschock has earned degrees from Yale University, the University of Iowa, Syracuse University, and the University of Georgia. The author of two collections of poetry, Unfathoms and A Beautiful Name for a Girl, she resides in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, where she is currently a doctoral fellow in dance at Temple University.

Average ratings

N/A

Write a review

Solve jigsaw puzzle

Age

Page Count

329

Publisher

Coffee House Press

Published Date

ISBN 10

1566892937

ISBN 13

9781566892933

The Dottery

By: Kirsten Kaschock

Write a review Read reviews Take a Quiz Solve Book Puzzle

The Dottery

By: Kirsten Kaschock

Winner of the 2013 Donald Hall Prize in Poetry The Dottery is a tale of dotters before they are born. In this series of prose poems you meet their would-be-mutters, the buoys they will know, their inner warden, and the mutterers who cannot have them. The Dottery itself is a sort-of pre-purgatory, a finishing school for the fetal feminine. The five sections correspond to the conceptual set-ups interrogated within. In "wound," The Dottery is described, as are its inhabitants and their difficulties. In "Dual," a gender binary is introduced and (hopefully) eviscerated. "Triage" establishes the issues that plague both the dotters and those who would bring them out into the world—specifically into the idea of America (I'm Erica and I can prefer a hummer to the rose parade"). In "Fear," failed dotters (out in the world) are described in obit fashion. Finally, in "Thief" one mutterer recounts how she stole her dotter ("a snatched piece") to become a mutter and chronicles both her desires and regrets.

Average ratings

N/A

Write a review

Solve jigsaw puzzle

Age

Page Count

Publisher

University of Pittsburgh Press

Published Date

ISBN 10

0822980320

ISBN 13

9780822980322

Sleight

By: Kirsten Kaschock

Write a review Read reviews Take a Quiz Solve Book Puzzle

Sleight

By: Kirsten Kaschock

Average ratings

N/A

Write a review

Solve jigsaw puzzle

Age

Page Count

329

Publisher

Coffee House Press

Published Date

ISBN 10

1566892937

ISBN 13

9781566892933

A Beautiful Name for a Girl

By: Kirsten Kaschock

Write a review Read reviews Take a Quiz Solve Book Puzzle

A Beautiful Name for a Girl

By: Kirsten Kaschock

Poetry. Human identity testing itself: are the speakers of these poems mother, teacher, creative artist--or are they merely bones to be sorted and juggled? The ramifications of identity ("we'd know... the translation / into mother to be exaltation. Murder, also") leap up sharply in the book's central poem, "Snuff Ballet," in which one speaker, a dancer, is tested by inquisitors who may be a board from whom she seeks a grant. But perhaps these voices, which quickly become intimate and judgmental ("When was the last time you had sex?"), are merely criticism internalized, part of the "one-woman show.

Average ratings

N/A

Write a review

Solve jigsaw puzzle

Age

Page Count

Published Date

ISBN 10

1934103179

ISBN 13

9781934103173

The Dottery

By: Kirsten Kaschock

Write a review Read reviews Take a Quiz Solve Book Puzzle

The Dottery

By: Kirsten Kaschock

Average ratings

N/A

Write a review

Solve jigsaw puzzle

Age

Page Count

Publisher

University of Pittsburgh Press

Published Date

ISBN 10

0822980320

ISBN 13

9780822980322

Book's by Kirsten Kaschock

Sleight

Sleight

The Dottery

The Dottery

Sleight

Sleight

A Beautiful Name for a Girl

A Beautiful Name for a Girl

The Dottery

The Dottery

Username

Password

Username

Password

Password again

Birthday

Email