OCTOBER 2020 - AudioFile
Barbara Kingsolver delivers her poetry of the everyday with sweet-voiced accessibility and a hint of Appalachia tang. The subjects range from losing weight (or not), peonies, sheep shearing, and knitting—“By involving fiber in my invocation of divinity/I feel assured of a fairly positive outcome”—to marriage, her mother’s death, and visiting a “burying ground”—”This cemetery is full of too much living.” It’s a mix of personal subjects that people often keep private, made universal by Kingsolver’s going public. How to get a divorce—“Don’t fight for these: The car that’s not paid for/Every gift you pretended to like.” Kingsolver reads unhurriedly, savoring the mix and match of words, giving listeners time to enjoy them with her. A.C.S. © AudioFile 2020, Portland, Maine
From the Publisher
Telling a moment is Kingsolver’s apt description of what poetry does, and it’s what she does, stunningly, in How to Fly (In Ten Thousand Easy Lessons)… How to Fly is language and observation at their most succulent, moments seized at their peak of ripeness.” — Jonathan Miles, Garden & Gun
"A gorgeous collection...These poems unplug from TV and social media and the outrage of the moment and turn our attention to the immediate and the everlasting, human intimacy and the power and mystery of nature." — Tampa Bay Times
"Kingsolver brings her gifts of observation and reflection to HOW TO FLY...For a reader wanting to escape, to fly while grounded, this book is a map that offers surprise and delight." — BookPage
BookPage
"Kingsolver brings her gifts of observation and reflection to HOW TO FLY...For a reader wanting to escape, to fly while grounded, this book is a map that offers surprise and delight."
Tampa Bay Times
"A gorgeous collection...These poems unplug from TV and social media and the outrage of the moment and turn our attention to the immediate and the everlasting, human intimacy and the power and mystery of nature."
Jonathan Miles
Telling a moment is Kingsolver’s apt description of what poetry does, and it’s what she does, stunningly, in How to Fly (In Ten Thousand Easy Lessons)… How to Fly is language and observation at their most succulent, moments seized at their peak of ripeness.
Garden & Gun
Telling a moment is Kingsolver’s apt description of what poetry does, and it’s what she does, stunningly, in How to Fly (In Ten Thousand Easy Lessons)… How to Fly is language and observation at their most succulent, moments seized at their peak of ripeness.” —Jonathan Miles, Garden & Gun
OCTOBER 2020 - AudioFile
Barbara Kingsolver delivers her poetry of the everyday with sweet-voiced accessibility and a hint of Appalachia tang. The subjects range from losing weight (or not), peonies, sheep shearing, and knitting—“By involving fiber in my invocation of divinity/I feel assured of a fairly positive outcome”—to marriage, her mother’s death, and visiting a “burying ground”—”This cemetery is full of too much living.” It’s a mix of personal subjects that people often keep private, made universal by Kingsolver’s going public. How to get a divorce—“Don’t fight for these: The car that’s not paid for/Every gift you pretended to like.” Kingsolver reads unhurriedly, savoring the mix and match of words, giving listeners time to enjoy them with her. A.C.S. © AudioFile 2020, Portland, Maine
