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Scratching for Something
What if our thoughts and emotions became visible? What if the hidden purpose embedded in each individual started to show on the surface? This collection of prose poems (or modern fables) explores the strange, humorous, gritty, and mysterious aspects of our humanity, leaving the “moral of the story” for the reader to decipher. The compact narratives in “Scratching for Something” explore universal truths in an entertaining and illuminating way.
"The poems work both singly and as a whole with wonderful ease, combining a rich surface with a variety of undercurrents that ebb and flow, thematically and stylistically … This is a fine and rewarding debut." -Nicholas Christopher, author of "A Trip to the Stars"
"The poems work both singly and as a whole with wonderful ease, combining a rich surface with a variety of undercurrents that ebb and flow, thematically and stylistically … This is a fine and rewarding debut." -Nicholas Christopher, author of "A Trip to the Stars"
66 pages, Paperback
First published January 1, 1998
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About the author
Kim White
24 books10 followersKim White is the author of: Scratching for Something, and Diurnal.
Her work has been anthologized in: Short: An International Anthology of Five Centuries of Short-Short Stories, Prose Poems, Brief Essays, and Other Short Prose Forms. Her poems and stories have appeared in literary journals: NANO Fiction, Chain, Columbia: A Journal of Literature and Art, Quarto, Mr. Beller’s Neighborhood, and Sojourner.
Kim is the recipient of the Academy of American Poets Prize at Hunter College, The Catalina Paez and Seumas MacManus Award, the Shuster Award for an outstanding Master’s degree thesis, a Bingham Writing Fellowship from Columbia University, and a Forbes Foundation Grant. Her electronic poem, The Minotaur Project, was shortlisted for a 2001 Electronic Literature Award.
Her work has been anthologized in: Short: An International Anthology of Five Centuries of Short-Short Stories, Prose Poems, Brief Essays, and Other Short Prose Forms. Her poems and stories have appeared in literary journals: NANO Fiction, Chain, Columbia: A Journal of Literature and Art, Quarto, Mr. Beller’s Neighborhood, and Sojourner.
Kim is the recipient of the Academy of American Poets Prize at Hunter College, The Catalina Paez and Seumas MacManus Award, the Shuster Award for an outstanding Master’s degree thesis, a Bingham Writing Fellowship from Columbia University, and a Forbes Foundation Grant. Her electronic poem, The Minotaur Project, was shortlisted for a 2001 Electronic Literature Award.
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