Realm Sixty-Four

by Kristi Maxwell

Kristi Maxwell’s debut illuminates a history of human strategy through the implications of a complex game. “There is an unspeakable intimacy in opposition—well, not wholly unspeakable, as Kristi Maxwell’s extraordinary debut proves. Opponents sit facing each other, a board constructed of 64 squares between them, a realm of possibilities circumscribed by Law and Chance, each person attempting to read the thoughts of the other. So a book sits between a poet and reader. So a bed looms between lovers. . . .Beyond the intricacy Maxwell reveals, beyond the enchantment in which she revels, is her insistent demonstration that poetry, like chess, is an art of thinking, and an art of risk, at whose final move, at the last blank page, one hears in echo a voice say Check, and pays closer attention to the before unseen threat.”—Dan Beachy-Quick

Genres: Poetry

First published January 1, 2008

About the author

Kristi Maxwell currently lives and writes in Tucson. She is the author of Re-, Realm Sixty-four and Hush Sessions, along with the chapbook Elsewhere & Wise.

Reviews

[Lesley · Rating 5 out of 5]

Smart. Challenging. Trippy. Maxwell has a sly sense of humor...