glint

The poet reminds herself that there is no fear in writing, as there is no fear in imagining — only the words and the images that carry the reader to a place of problematic delight.

—Francesc Parcerisas
Still Life with Children, translated from Catalan by Cyrus Cassells, Stephen F. Austin University Press

AKaiser’s richly lyrical glint is a book of refractions and fracturing: a collection that cracks the interior cleanly open, allowing for light and insight to bend and enter through myriad angles. These are poems constantly in motion…[poems of] a self transmuted and made strange through desire, illness, motherhood, revolution, and the distances the body can cover. Kaiser…reckons arrestingly with loss and regeneration—historical, familial, personal—and casts a keen eye toward “boundaries between / mutable and imperishable.” These poems startle by the glint of their own making—
a remarkable debut.

— Jenny Xie
Eye Level, winner, Walt Whitman Award, Graywolf Press

Everything that can be seen out of the corner of one’s eye has a voice in AKaiser’s glint. …from a blues singer to the “texture of forgotten peaches.” These are careful meditations on how the world works; bodies in love and growing absent, things rooting for breath, hard questions from a child, riots of colors, and the natural world is a velvet ear. And while the body and the universe are on the same footing, Kaiser engages honestly about the violence in the weeds and in humanity…

— Cynthia Manick
Blue Hallelujahs, Black Lawrence Press

The form of [AKaiser’s] Michelangelo’s Slaves feels so much like a block of marble facing Michelangelo, waiting to be carved, waiting for all that potential to be unlocked, which is, of course, also […] the poet…waiting to unfold.

— Dell Lemmon
Are You Somebody I Should Know?, Box Turtle Press

Co-winner: inaugural Milk & Cake Book Prize
www.milkandcakepress.com
Pushcart nominated poems
December 2019

Launch: Berl’s Brooklyn Poetry Shop
January 2020

Available for purchase from the author and from Milk & Cake Press

Also available at:
ARAS
Fairhope Public Library
Poets House
Grolier Poetry Book Shop

Horse Behavior
Pushcart nomination
Translated into several languages. See below, -translations-, & stay tuned for more

Arson
After Fire by Greg Kaiser

The Sound of Clothes
Pushcart nomination
Winner, Sow’s Ear Poetry Review Poetry Prize, 2017

Gaëlle Cogan has translated into French poems from glint.
Reach out to Gaëlle @ gaellecogan.com

“Horse Behavior,” a Pushcart Prize-nominated poem, has been translated into Catalan (appears in glint) and also into Arabic (Palestine), French, Georgian, German, Gĩkũyũ, Icelandic, Italian, Korean, Latin, Portuguese, Romantsch, Spanish (Argentina), and Swedish.

— Translated by Francesc Parcerisas, Alaa Alqaisi, Marine Cornuet, Giorgi Svanidze, Daniel Schilling, Ngũgĩ wa Thiong’o, Kári Tulinius, Simona Mancini, Ae Hee Lee, Dean Thomas Ellis, Walter Roselli, Silvina López Medin, and Lena Johansson Fahlén, respectively.

Alaa Alqaisi has also translated the poem “Grandfather’s Key” from glint into Arabic.

Here is a link to the Sant Jordi NYC Book Festival 2020, where I read Horse Behavior myself, followed by some translators and their reading of their translations of the poem.