Pulse

by Katherine Indermaur

This micro-chapbook is a part of the 2018 Ghost City Press Summer Micro-Chap Series.

Genres: Poetry

29 pages, ebook

First published June 8, 2018

About the author

KATHERINE INDERMAUR's (she/her) first full-length book, "I|I," was selected as the winner of the 2022 Deborah Tall Lyric Essay Book Prize by Kazim Ali. She is also the author of two chapbooks, an editor for Sugar House Review, the recipient of prizes from Black Warrior Review and the Academy of American Poets, and was named runner-up in the 92Y’s 2020 Discovery Poetry Contest. Her writing has appeared in Ecotone, Frontier Poetry, New Delta Review, the Normal School, Seneca Review, and elsewhere. She is a graduate of Colorado State University's MFA program, and she lives in Fort Collins with her husband and daughter.

Reviews

[Cat]

3.5

[Amanda]

i especially liked the structure of this chapbook, each section a contemplation of a concept, such as combustion, followed by pulses, which are sensual and lyrical extensions of the contemplation that introduces them.The overriding tone of the work is the colour blue, presented in various ways. "Somewhere inside the page is a world let open"...

[Arjun Arun]

Chapbooks... A different experience in reading.

[Carla Sofia Sofia]

This was breathtakingly gorgeous! Hands down a new favorite microchap. Indermaur does such a brilliant job weaving together the imagery of blue, body, ocean, and desire/longing. At so many points, I found myself stopping and saying, "Oh, that is too beautiful to only be read once! Let me reread." A book I'll be returning to and would love to teach— it's a masterclass on how to write with extraordinary precision, how to create a short book that shines.

[nat]

"Oh, all the beauty you sing open in me" absolutely gorgeous