Things Are Disappearing Here: Poems

Disquieting new work from the winner of the 2001 Stan and Tom Wick Poetry Prize.

Absence and trespass permeate these poems, in which what has just occurred — or what is about to — is as palpable and ominous as it is unrevealed. In Kate Northrop's finely-wrought verse, children have gone missing, sealed-off passages are discovered, and missing dogs emerge like visions before bounding off again. Northrop has a sixth sense for where the mundane and the uncanny pass too close for comfort — and no place more so than in the book's haunted centerpiece, a visceral rendering of a sixteenth-century Hungarian countess with certain insatiable appetites.

Gorgeous and strange, "Things Are Disappearing Here" is an imaginative tour-de-force.

• Author
• Kate Northrop

• Format
• paperback

• Pages
• 61

• Publisher
• Persea

• Language
• english

• ISBN
• 9780892553341

• Genres
• poetry

• Release date
• 2007