My Psychic: Poems

by James Kimbrell

“Kimbrell helps us see into the mysteries and losses that haunt our world—primal, incessant, hidden, and true as ‘fog rising from our wordless mouths.’”—David Baker

My Psychic is a book about the soul—what it might be, under what circumstances it might show itself to the rest of us curious, bewildered living. The center sequence of poems elegizing his mother’s death movingly establishes an unbroken continuity between the living and the dead.

James Kimbrell is the author of The Gatehouse Heaven and co-translator of Three Poets of Modern Korea. He is currently the director of the creative writing program at Florida State University.

Genres: Poetry

88 pages, Paperback

First published January 1, 2006

Reviews

[Elizabeth Wylder]

As a general rule, I refrain from assigning ratings to books written by my current/former teachers, but this book was just too damn good not to sing its praises.

Of course, I don't actually sing (unless I'm trying to injure someone), so 5 stars will have to suffice. Loved it.

[Jami]

LOVED the poem "Don't Drive to the Beach Alone"

What a lovely collection as unified whole...worth the read from start to finish.

[Nichole Smith]

Loved "Bahia Grass"—perhaps a nod to my grass farm upbringing. A lovely collection as a whole, too.