{"product_id":"undressing-the-world-paperback-1","title":"Undressing the World - Paperback","description":"\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cp style=\"text-align: right;\"\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/reportcopyrightinfringement.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eReport copyright infringement\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eKathy Kremins\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eEven though the penultimate poem swears that it's not about \u003cem\u003eNewark, Parents, Religion\u003c\/em\u003e, or \u003cem\u003eLonging\u003c\/em\u003e, each poem in this collection gets to the heart of one child's experience of the profound and lasting impact of Vatican II and Vietnam, of the Civil Rights Movement in the U.S. and in Ireland. With evocative detail Kremins revisits the clashing of national and international politics with family values, joys, and traumas.\u003cem\u003e Undressing the World\u003c\/em\u003e removes layers of convention and silence to reveal a child who is both living innocently with her heroes \"in a Technicolor imagination\" and also living with the hard earned wisdom that even \"Casper couldn't rescue my eyes.\" These poems are full of the hands that do the undressing: hands praying, hands working, hands caressing, hands harming: \"Those hands, eighty seven years of history imprinted on callused \/ fingertips and broad palms...\" In this collection, rich in poetic form and specific cultural and historical images, Kremins takes our hands and invites us to explore identity and loss and the body and tragedy, war and peace, and love and hope in all their variations.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e-Lynne McEniry\u003c\/strong\u003e, author of \u003cem\u003esome other wet landscape\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cbr\u003eWhen was the last time you heard a good love song? Kat Kremins' \u003cem\u003eUndressing the World \u003c\/em\u003eis full of them, tough and tender lyrics about the hard truths of personal and collective histories: a childhood whose \"Technicolor imagination\" is \"interrupted or canceled\" by the Kennedy assassination, \"the blood taste of Vietnam,\" the struggle for Civil Rights, a world undressed in a working class Irish immigrant Newark where a \"dark green Oldsmobile\" won in a church raffle is \"a sign of wealth we didn't have.\" Kremins is a bard of the body as both \"myth [and] narrative we are given as children\" and \"Republic,\" and reminds us that history is not a dead abstraction but a constant living presence urging us to attain the kind of love that \"needs no words.\"-\u003cstrong\u003ePaulA Neves\u003c\/strong\u003e, author of \u003cem\u003ecapricornucopia (the dream of the goats)\u003c\/em\u003e, winner of the 2020 NJ Poets Prize, co-founder Parkway North Productions.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cem\u003eUndressing the World\u003c\/em\u003e by Kathy Kremins is awe, experience, love, grief, joy, acceptance, and memory in one exhale. With the backdrop of a Newark, NJ in historical transition, Kremins' poems are technicolor hymns and elegies collectively displaying an ode to a life lived, living, and still learning where \u003cem\u003eUndressing the World\u003c\/em\u003e is not only the unpacking and reckoning of memory, but is a created space for the speaker to see \"my face\/ The map it is, lines of\/ Every touch, tenderness.\"\u003cstrong\u003e-Dimitri Reyes\u003c\/strong\u003e, author of \u003cem\u003eEvery First \u0026amp; Fifteenth\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 46\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.11 x 8.5 x 5.5 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e June 10, 2022\u003c\/div\u003e\n            ","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47350910615801,"sku":"9781646628605","price":21.58,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0789\/2782\/3097\/files\/YzJJaEo0b0lSSW1WQVI0bzYyM1Y0Zz09_e867e9a3-6095-4b0f-a490-a4a7c90150ec.webp?v=1769790554","url":"https:\/\/bookscloud.io\/products\/undressing-the-world-paperback-1","provider":"BooksCloud Book Dropshipping","version":"1.0","type":"link"}