Consolation and Mirth

by Ish Klein

Poetry. Ish Klein's third collection, CONSOLATION AND MIRTH, has at its center a book-within-the-book, a series of short riddles which take as their inspiration a 10th-Century codex of Anglo-Saxon poetry. In these riddles and the brilliant, far-ranging poems that surround them, Klein continues her exploration of the rough and beautiful seas of being alive, because, as she writes, "a human has a right to try her human feeling / then take the ship that's left and steer it through its reeling."

Genres: Poetry

104 pages, Paperback

First published April 1, 2015

Reviews

[Christine · Rating 5 out of 5]

This book is incredible. Klein inventively blends poetry and fiction with the clarity and precision of an instruction manual. Behold, a new life awaits.

[laila* · Rating 3 out of 5]

it feels like how my brain used to think in 2019 and also i think sometimes poetry rots my brain a little bit