Nail Builders Plan for Strength and Growth
Poems
“Poets with Kathy Mac’s impeccable technical skill are not too hard to find, but very few can touch her for emotional power, thematic range, gentle humour or quiet courage. As Robert Heinlein said of another writer, these poems should be served with a whisk broom, so that the customer may brush the sawdust off himself when he gets back up.” –Spider Robinson, author of Telempath (1976), The Free Lunch (2001) and many others in between
About the book
“Poets with Kathy Mac’s impeccable technical skill are not too hard to find, but very few can touch her for emotional power, thematic range, gentle humour or quiet courage. As Robert Heinlein said of another writer, these poems should be served with a whisk broom, so that the customer may brush the sawdust off himself when he gets back up.” –Spider Robinson, author of Telempath (1976), The Free Lunch (2001) and many others in between
What people are saying
Saint Mary’s JournalOn Mac’s 1991 chapbook, Dust From Outer Space: “Mac’s poetry is incisive, witty, and thought-provoking.”
Susan Pajares Tosca, HipertiliaOn Mac’s 1995 hypertext, Unnatural Habitats: “A rare disquieting beauty… The images come from the newspapers, television, or books, but are interiorized and made part of the narrator, whose voice is dry and evocative, an impossible combination that Kathy Mac achieves with apparent lightness… a pessimistic beautiful report from the front of what it means to be human.”
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Contents
- Nail Builders Plan for Strength and Growth
- Substitutions, Mark I, II, and III
- Tooke, Suitor to the Spectacular Givens
- Life Cycle of a Romance (Reader’s Digest Version)
- AEolian Chrysanthemums
- Serv. Frags
- Hand Movements
