Open Slowly

by Kate Light

In her second book, Open Slowly, Kate Light carries on her standard of wise, witty poems on living, loving and making sense of the two. Light, a classically trained violinist, brings an understanding of rhythm and lyricism to her work that allows each poem to be formal yet accessible. Her pragmatic themes - relationships, love, attractions and the bodies that contain them - do open slowly, and her poems, says Molly Peacock, "seem more conjured than written."

Genres: Poetry

67 pages, Paperback

First published June 1, 2003

Reviews

[Carrie]

Light handles the formal requirements very deftly, but I admit there were times when the serious moments in the poems seemed overwhelmed by a kind of rhyming flippancy that created distance just when it was least wanted.