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The poems in Polina & the Pomegranate track the arc of life. The first poems catch the flash of youth, the flowering of selfhood, the drum-beat of desire smoking out the body's dark secrets. Following these are poems that explore the heftier spread of middle age, its perplexing ambiguities and uncertainties, like the Quaker sitting unperturbed in meeting, less the runner now and more the seeker. The final poems of the volume ascend, like a visitor at the Uffizi, into the impossible beauty of angels. There at life's ending all experience distils into the primordial white star on black sky, and we begin to ""see to the end of this mystery.""

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Kathryn Kimball grew up in Montgomery, Alabama, has a Ph.D. in English literature, and taught writing and nineteenth-century British and American literature. She divides her time between New York City and Carlisle, England, and has been a yoga practitioner for thirty years. Her published work included the 2021 chapbook Crossings and various poems and French poetry translations in literary journals. She won the Columbia Journal 2023 prize for translation.

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