Synopses & Reviews
"Irresistible," wrote Nobel Laureate Derek Walcott when he selected Kathleen Ossip’s The Search Engine for the Honickman Prize from more than 1000 manuscripts. "You feel like quoting her," Walcott continued, "because she is . . . so fresh and so open." Ossip’s poetry is word-rich and music-lush, infused with fastidious hilarity and a genuine intelligence. It is a poetry of nerves, with a hunger for subtlety. She admits her influences easily, using pop songs and academic quotes in a self-confessed, even parodic search for her voice. As Richard Howard remarks: "An astonishment, this first book, and what a comfort!"
Kathleen Ossip teaches at The New School. Her poetry has appeared in Best American Poetry and The Paris Review. She lives outside New York City.
Synopsis
Selected by Derek Walcott as winner of the American Poetry Review / Honickman First Book Prize.
About the Author
Kathleen Ossip teaches a poetry workshop at The New School. Her poems have appeared in many journals and anthologies including Best American Poetry, The Paris Review, The Antioch Review, Fence, and Barrow Street; her criticism has been published in LIT, American Letters and Commentary, and the AWP Chronicle. She lives outside New York City.