Beautiful in the Mouth by Keetje Kuipers

Beautiful in the Mouth was selected by Thomas Lux as winner of BOA’s A. Poulin, Jr., Poetry Prize and it debuted in the top ten on the Poetry Foundation bestseller list. 

In it, Kuipers combines frank sensuality with sincere emotion, yielding poems that travel from New York City to the American West on a exploration of love and loss.

Set against both literal and figurative geography—the empty bedroom of a dead child, a clear-cut hillside outside a logging town—these poems examine how loss transforms our most unwilling landscapes.

Thomas Lux selected this debut collection as winner of BOA’s A. Poulin, Jr., Poetry Prize.

In his foreword he writes, “I was immediately struck by the boldness of imagination, the strange cadences, and wild music of these poems.

We should be glad that young poets like Keetje Kuipers are making their voices heard not by tearing up the old language but by making the old language new.”

Keetje Kuipers, a native of the Northwest, earned her BA at Swarthmore College and MFA at the University of Oregon. A Stegner Fellow at Stanford University, she divides her time between Stanford and Missoula, Montana.

Beautiful in the Mouth
(A. Poulin, Jr. New Poets of America)
by Keetje Kuipers (Author),
Thomas Lux (Foreword)
Paperback
2010
Publisher: ‎BOA Editions Ltd.; First Edition (April 1, 2010)
Language: ‎English
Paperback: ‎96 pages
ISBN-10: ‎1934414336
ISBN-13: ‎978-1934414330
$17.00

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