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“Kevin Clark’s The Consecrations is a timely book about fear and faith—in particular, the many spiritual, philosophical, and familial beliefs that keep us afloat through the crises that punctuate our lives. These complex and highly readable poems, where ‘heaven’s just a wet dream,’ refuse to ignore the fact of our physical suffering even as the book finally celebrates the desires that keep us tethered to the world.”

—Paisley Rekdal, author of Nightingale and The Broken Country: On Trauma, a Crime, and the Continuing Legacy of Vietnam

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“A work of art is never completed, merely abandoned.”

—Paul Valery

“Poetry is a dream dreamed in the presence of reason.”

—Tommaso Ceva

“The art of running the mile consists, in essence, of reaching the threshold of consciousness at the instant of breasting the tape.”

—Paul O’Neil

“Keep your eye clear and hit ’em where they ain’t.”

—Wee Willie Keeler

“Poetry begins where certitude ends.”

—Eavan Boland

“How old would you be if you didn’t know how old you are?”

—Satchell Page

“For me the initial delight is in the surprise of remembering something I didn’t know I already knew.”

—Robert Frost

“I like restraint—if doesn’t go too far.”

—Mae West

“Let’s play two.”

—Ernie Banks

“There is only one plot: Things are not what they seem.”

—Jim Thompson

“The art of writing is the art of discovering what you believe.”

—David Hare

“In the midst of our happiness we were very pleased.”

—Gertrude Stein

“Writing is easy. All you have to do is cross out the wrong words.”

—Mark Twain

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Kevin Clark PortraitAuthor of three full-length collections of poetry, four chapbooks, and a creative writing textbook, Kevin Clark teaches at the Rainier Writing Workshop in Tacoma. Kevin’s most recent full-length volume of poems, The Consecrations, is published by Stephen F. Austin University Press. Self-Portrait with Expletives won the Lena-Miles Wever Todd Prize of Pleiades Press. His first book, In the Evening of No Warning, earned a grant from the Academy of American Poets. He’s also won the Angoff Award from The Literary Review, an Artsmith fellowship, a Bread Loaf fellowship, and two university teaching awards. Kevin has been a regular critic for The Georgia Review, and his essays about poetry appear widely. In spring 2020, Kevin was selected for a two-year appointment as poet laureate of San Luis Obispo County, California. Despite knees that grind like stone mills, Kevin plays rec league softball and tournament baseball. He lives with his understanding if humoring wife Amy Hewes in San Luis Obispo.

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