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With passion, precision and irreverent honesty, her poems explore life's dual nature: good and evil, light and dark, joy and suffering, exposing raw emotions often only visible when truly confronting ourselves - jealousy, self-pity, fear, lust.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e'Kim Addonizio's poetry gives me physical energy, particularly 'For Desire' and \"What Do Women Want?\". - Phoebe Waller-Bridge, \u003cem\u003eNew York Times\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e'If it is possible for a writer's poetry to be consistently unexpected, Kim Addonizio's is that. One has the impression, when reading her best poems, of being a passenger in a sports car being driven by an impossibly glamorous woman. Suddenly the car swerves off the motorway and tears over untested, dangerous and utterly exhilarating new terrain. Long may she continue to publish in Britain.' - Leaf Arbuthnot, \u003cem\u003eOxford Poetry\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e'Kim Addonizio's imagination is like a runaway train under perfect control. Nuanced, shaded and unshaded, her poems are bold, brave, respectful of the darkness, perfectly pitched, and virtually every one reverberates with a kind of wild tenderness.' - Thomas Lux\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Gardners","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":56304190554485,"sku":"9781780372709","price":12.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0612\/7193\/3106\/files\/9781780372709_542119b2-e577-4b53-a880-cc69adee1dc3.jpg?v=1786024970"},{"product_id":"9781880238912","title":"Tell Me","description":"\u003cp\u003ePoems of loneliness and late nights, liquor and loss.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Gardners","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":56308766966133,"sku":"9781880238912","price":10.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0612\/7193\/3106\/files\/9781880238912_8f215505-536e-4640-bf31-023c5d2adb64.jpg?v=1786029065"},{"product_id":"9781324130659","title":"Exit Opera","description":"Set in locations from dive bars to Montparnasse Cemetery, from an ancient Greek temple to a tourist shop in Assisi, Exit Opera explores the ever-vexing issues of time, mortality, love and loss, and considers the roles of art and human connection. Whatever their nominal subject–jazz, zombies, Buddhism, Siberian tigers–these poems make for a compelling mix of humour and pain, difficulty and solace. In a nod to Keats, one of the many fellow travellers in these poems, Addonizio invites us to “[inscribe] a few verses on whatever water \/ you can find” and assures readers that they are not alone in navigating the challenges and changes of mortal life. As she writes in “My Opera”:The staging is difficult.   Exploding stars are involved, high-redshift galaxies, interior chambers,a little country blues, a little jazz guitar, a jam jar containinga tiny ocean \u0026amp; a tinier rowboat rocking gently in the swellsthat I am steering toward you in the dark.","brand":"Gardners","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":56368674767221,"sku":"9781324130659","price":14.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0612\/7193\/3106\/files\/9781324130659.jpg?v=1791212867"},{"product_id":"9781324021940","title":"Now We′re Getting Somewhere – Poems","description":"\u003cp\u003eKim Addonizio's sharp and irreverent eighth volume, \u003cem\u003eNow We're Getting Somewhere\u003c\/em\u003e, is an essential companion to your practice of the Finnish art of \u003cem\u003ekalsarikannit\u003c\/em\u003e-drinking at home, alone in your underwear, with no intention of going out. Imbued with the poet's characteristic precision and passion, the collection charts a hazardous course through heartache, climate change, dental work, \u003cem\u003eOutlander\u003c\/em\u003e, semiotics, and more.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eCombatting existential gloom with a wicked, seductive energy, Addonizio investigates desire, loss, and the madness of contemporary life. She calls out to Walt Whitman and John Keats, echoes Dorothy Parker, and finds sisterhood with Virginia Woolf.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eSometimes confessional, sometimes philosophical, these poems weave from desolation to drollery and clamor with raucous imagery: an insect in high heels, a wolf at an uncomfortable party, a glowing and self-serious guitar.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eA poet whose “voice lifts from the page, alive and biting” (Sky Sanchez, San Francisco Book Review), Addonizio reminds her reader, \"\u003cem\u003eif you think nothing \u0026amp; \/ no one can \/ listen I love you joy is coming\u003c\/em\u003e.\"\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Gardners","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":56419780854133,"sku":"9781324021940","price":9.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0612\/7193\/3106\/files\/9781324021940_c1e85b05-8358-4d9b-a93f-1d0edff61fc3.jpg?v=1786445877"},{"product_id":"exit-opera-poems","title":"Exit Opera – Poems","description":"Set in locations from dive bars to Montparnasse Cemetery, from an ancient Greek temple to a tourist shop in Assisi, Exit Opera explores the ever-vexing issues of time, mortality, love, and loss, and considers the roles of art and human connection. 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