Kara Candito is a creative writing professor at the University of Wisconsin, Platteville, and a co-curator of the Monsters of Poetry reading series in Madison, Wisconsin. She is the recipient of scholarships and awards from the Bread Loaf Writers' Conference, the Council for Wisconsin Writers, the Vermont Studio Center, the MacDowell Colony, and the Santa Fe Arts Institute. Her work has been published in numerous journals and her first poetry collection, Taste of Cherry, won the Prairie Schooner Book Prize in Poetry.
Request Academic Copy
Please copy the ISBN for submitting review copy form
Description
"The fluidity of the writing, the lift of the heart, the self-deprecating humor, and the aggregate of the understated losses add up to, in Kara Candito's second collection, a kind of brilliance and readability all too rare. These new poems are alive with the personality and honesty of a young poet at the beginning of true art." -Stanley Plumly "Spectator has a subversive heart: a series of poems about a Mexican and an American in love. These ravenous poems cross many emotional and aesthetic borders. They're surreal, tender, meta, political, impressionistic, and angry. Kara Candito has enlarged the contemporary love poem. This is vital and startling work." -Eduardo Corral "Candito proves herself once again to be a surprising and sage voice, offering poems of candor and urgency." -Better View of the Moon (blog)