Don't Sleep on Sundaey
A GLOBAL PANDEMIC may have diminished the media onslaught the Propeller Books publicity machine had planned for the release of our first poetry title, but you can’t keep a good poet down. Kirsten Ihns is a force, and we’re not the only ones who think so. Check out some highlights from Antony Madrid’s rave review of Ihns’s debut collection, sundaey:
You know who’s good? Kirsten Ihns. Her first book just came out: Sundaey. You don’t wanna miss this one. You only see this kind of freshness and spontaneity five, six times a decade.
And that’s just the start. Madrid goes on to say:
If you set about making your first book with your eyes steady on the prize (“What do I really like? what do I actually get off on?”) you might coin a classic. That’s what I think we’re looking at here.
This is correct. And we are not biased. (We are biased. We are the publisher.) And in good/bad news for our poetry editor who also runs a page-tinting process in his book arts workshop, Madrid acknowledges that workshop’s work:
Just a word, in closing, about the physical properties of the book. The edges of the pages are stained hot pink. The pages themselves are especially floppy. There are places in the poems where diagram-like empty rectangles and squares appear.
This if course means that we are duty-bound to continue tinting those pages on all copies sold, lest Mr. Madrid be accused of false advertising. Our understanding is that the poetry editor is tinting more pages as we speak.
Read Anthony Madrid’s full review of sundaey.
Order sundaey from Propeller Books (shipping is free).
Kirsten Ihns earned her MFA from the Iowa Writers’ Workshop, where she was a Teaching-Writing Fellow. She is currently a Ph.D. student and Neubauer Presidential Fellow in English at the University of Chicago, where she studies texts that seem to want to be images, co-founded the Plexiglas series at The Gray Center for Arts & Inquiry, co-organizes UChicago’s Poetry & Poetics Workshop, and works for Chicago Review. She is from Atlanta, Georgia.
