Synopses & Reviews
"I like being in the world of Craig's poems. Anything can happen, and probably will, and it will affect me in small or large ways that I couldn't have imagined. The precision of their imagery keeps me reeling with delight."James Tate
Thin Kimono continues Michael Earl Craig's singular breed of brilliant absurdist poetry, utterly and masterfully slanting the realities of daily existence.
Michael Earl Craig is the author of two previous collections of poetry: Yes, Master (Fence Books, 2006) and Can You Relax in My House (Fence Books, 2002). He lives in Livingston, Montana, where he is a certified journeyman farrier.
Review
"The intuitive leap, grounded by rhyme and subtler resonances, is early warning that the logic of Thin Kimono is that of dreams. Things are named. Time is fundamentally linear. But causality is obscured... Even in the seemingly random firings of a contemporary consciousness, there is a pedestrian suggestion of the possibility of explaining the mind by replicating its moves. And yet the singular consciousness that speaks these poems remains mysterious." Megan Levad, Boston Review
Review
"I like being in the world of Craig's poems. Anything can happen, and probably will, and it will affect me in small or large ways that I couldn't have imagined. The precision of their imagery keeps me reeling with delight." James Tate
Synopsis
Thin Kimono continues Michael Earl Craig's singular breed of brilliant absurdist poetry, utterly and masterfully slanting the realities of daily existence.
Synopsis
The third collection of deadpan absurdist poetry by a Certified Journeyman Farrier from Montana.
Synopsis
Michael Earl Craig's third full-length collection of expertly crystalline yet wholly unexpected renderings of everyday existence.
A masterwork of lucid dreaming, Thin Kimono continues Craig's singular breed of brilliant and generously uncanny poems, reflecting, while utterly slanting, the idiosyncrasies of daily existence in the oft-incomprehensible world.
About the Author
Michael Earl Craig is the author of three collections of poetry: Thin Kimono (Wave Books, 2010), Yes, Master (Fence Books, 2006) and Can You Relax in My House (2002, Fence Books). He received a BA in English Literature from the University of Montana, and an MFA in Creative Writing from the University of Massachusetts. His poems have been published in various print and online journals, including Provincetown Arts, The Iowa Review, The Believer, HoboEye, Octopus, Fence, jubilat, and Denver Quarterly, as well as anthologized in Isnt It Romantic: 100 Love Poems (Verse Press, 2004) and Poems About Horses (Everymans Library Pocket Series, 2009). He lives in Livingston, Montana, where is a Certified Journeyman Farrier, and shoes horses for a living.