Luckily

by Kelle Groom

Poetry. "In Kelle Groom's LUCKILY, tenderness transforms violence: 'A kiss on a cigarette burn.' In poems both mysterious and candid, Groom captures domesticity and dream, internal and external landscapes, addiction and recovery. Groom is pitch perfect when it comes to emotional nuance. She constructs flawless images about our miraculous, vulnerable bodies. Luckily is a fierce and important book"—Denise Duhamel. Kelle Groom's first collection of poems is Underwater City. Her poems have appeared in Agni, Barrow Street, Crab Orchard Review, DoubleTake/Points of Entry, Florida Review, The New Yorker, Poetry, The Texas Observer, Witness, 88: A Journal of Contemporary American Poetry and other magazines.

Genres: Poetry

90 pages, Paperback

First published February 1, 2006

About the author

Kelle Groom is a poet and memoirist. Her memoir, "I Wore the Ocean in the Shape of a Girl," is forthcoming from The Free Press, a division of Simon & Schuster in June 2011. She is the author of three poetry collections: "Five Kingdoms" (Anhinga Press, 2010); "Luckily" (Anhinga, 2006); and "Underwater City" (University Press of Florida, 2004). Her work has appeared in Best American Poetry 2010, The New Yorker, Ploughshares, and Poetry, among others, and has received special mention in the Pushcart Prize 2010 and Best American Non-Required Reading 2007 anthologies. She is the recipient of both a 2010 and a 2006 Florida Book Award and grant awards from the State of Florida, Division of Cultural Affairs, New Forms Florida, and the Barbara Deming Memorial Fund. Groom has been a Norma Millay Ellis Fellow at the Millay Colony for the Arts, a William Randolph Hearst Foundation Fellow at the American Antiquarian Society, a Tennessee Williams Scholar at the Sewanee Writers' Conference, and has been awarded residency fellowships from Atlantic Center for the Arts and Virginia Center for the Creative Arts. She has taught writing at the University of Central Florida and is a contributing editor for The Florida Review.
Kelle Groom website: http://www.KelleGroom.com
Kelle Groom facebook page: http://www.facebook.com/IWoretheOcean...

Reviews

[Patricia Murphy · Rating 5 out of 5]

Some very powerful language and message here. Some of my favorite moments:

I remember the medieval need to punish every cell
in a girl.

This proves that time is a circle.

some kind of wish
the kiss dissolved.

There's a beehive in the stars.

I cried as secretly as possible.

[Pamela Tatum · Rating 5 out of 5]

I love this collection. Really powerful poems. Kelle is a gifted writer and a gift to us.