Propeller to publish "sundaey," debut poetry collection by Kirsten Ihns
ON FEBRUARY 25, 2020, Propeller Books will release its latest title: sundaey, the debut poetry collection by Kirstin Ihns. The book is available for pre-order now on the Propeller Books page.
Kirsten Ihns grew up in Atlanta, Georgia, and she earned an MFA from the Iowa Writers’ Workshop. Her poems have appeared or are forthcoming in Hyperallergic, Black Warrior Review, the Iowa Review, Yalobusha Review, and elsewhere. She is currently a PhD student and Neubauer Presidential Fellow in English Literature at the University of Chicago, where she studies texts that seem to want to be images, co-curates the emerging poet/artist series Plexiglas at the Gray Center for Arts and Inquiry, and works for Chicago Review.
sundaey will be the first title in the Propeller Contemporary Poetry Series. Ihns’s collection was chosen by Series Editors Lucas Bernhardt and Jan Verberkmoes.
“Kirsten Ihns’s sundaey weaves philosophical engagement into poetic performance,” says Edgar Garcia, author of Skins of Columbus: A Dream Ethnography. “In the pages of this book, words are made pictures of the ideas they reflect, introducing a break in the reflection in which we can see ourselves reflecting. In this interruption, which is a kind of broken mirror for the intensity of the gaze we give to language, is the most brilliantly convincing self-portrait and study of the demonstrating voice.”
Ihns will travel to Portland for a book launch event in late February. Details of the event will be released soon.
