Lasting Relations

Status: Available

Page Count: 108

Edition: First

ISBN: 978-1-59092-190-6

SRP (USD): $12.99

Size: 5.5x8.5 trade paperback

Cover: E.J. Angel

Genre(s): Poetry

Homepage: Rudy Kikel

"Marvelously clever as these poems are--sometimes wickedly so, sometimes angelic--they are always warmhearted and innocent in their charting the loss of innocence. The spirit of this poetry rises above the polished surfaces, the stylish manner, even above the fascination of its intimate revelations, to a real of playfulness-- where the voice of a true poet sings to us all. I enthusiastically recommend this admirable book."

--Edward Field

"Nothing has been lost on Rudy Kikel, and in these poems, he has fully rendered his past and ours in lines that match the complexities of his experience with dazzling word play and syntactical elegance. At once elegiac and amusing, lyrical and tough, these linked verses fill a whole formal, echoing gallery with speaking likenesses of friends, family, classmates, tricks, lovers and mentors."

--Edmund White

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