Pretend the World
confronts our false sense of safety in our self-created worlds. From her St. Paul kitchen to the historical shores of Lake Superior, from an airplane above Bagdad to a clothing factory in Guangdong, Kathryn Kysar pretends the glimmering and the sordid in these honest, searing poems that explore the inequities, cracks, and fissures in women's constructed lives.
Kathryn Kysar
is the author of
Dark Lake
(Loonfeather Press, 2002), a book of poetry, and is the editor of
Riding Shotgun: Women Write About Their Mothers
(Borealis Books, 2008). She has received fellowships from the National Endowment for the Humanities and the Anderson Center, and she has published poems in many anthologies and magazines, including
Great River Review
,
Mizna
, and
Painted Bride Quarterly
. She serves on the board of directors for the Association of Writers and Writing Programs.