| Home | Menu | Poems | Poets | Reading | Theme | Biography | Articles | Photo | Dictionary | Chat | Video | Shop | Extra | Jokes | Games | Science | Bio | বাংলা

The Sound - Kim Addonizio


Marc says the suffering that we don’t see
still makes a sort of sound — a subtle, soft
noise, nothing like the cries or screams that we
might think of — more the slight scrape of a hat doffed
by a quiet man, ignored as he stands back
to let a lovely woman pass, her dress
just brushing his coat. Or else it’s like a crack
in an old foundation, slowly widening, the stress
and slippage going on unnoticed by
the family upstairs, the daughter leaving
for a date, her mother’s resigned sigh
when she sees her. It’s like the heaving
of a stone into a lake, before it drops.
It’s shy, it’s barely there. It never stops.

Kim Addonizio

US Poet Novelist Kim Addonizio 1954

Kim Addonizio (born Kim Addie, July 31, 1954, Bethesda, Maryland) is an award-winning American poet and novelist.

Born July 31, 1954 (1954-07-31) (age 56)
Citizenship American
Education Georgetown University
San Francisco State University
Occupation poet, novelist


Addonizio is the daughter of tennis champion Pauline Betz and sports writer Bob Addie.

She briefly attended Georgetown University before moving to San Francisco and receiving a B.A. and M.F.A. from San Francisco State University. She has taught at San Francisco State University, as well as Goddard College.

She has a daughter, Aya Cash, and currently lives in Oakland, California.

Awards

  • two National Endowment for the Arts fellowships
  • 2005 Guggenheim Fellowship
  • 2004 Mississippi Review Fiction Prize
  • 2000 National Book Award nomination for Tell Me
  • 2000 Pushcart Prize for "Aliens"
  • 1994 San Francisco Commonwealth Club Poetry Medal

Poetry

  • "What Do Women Want", poets.org
  • "Eating Together", Poetry, June 2003
  • "Scary Movies", Poetry, March 2000
  • "The First Line is the Deepest", Poetry, January 2009
  • "Weaponry", Poetry, February 2009
  • "Lucifer at the Starlite", Three Penny Review, Summer 2007
  • What is this Thing Called Love. W. W. Norton & Company. 2003. Tell Me. Boa Editions. 2000.
  • Jimmy & Rita. BOA Editions. 1997.
  • The Philosopher's Club. Boa Editions. 1994.

Fiction

  • Little Beauties. Simon and Schuster. 2005.
  • My Dreams Out in the Street. Simon and Schuster. 2007.
  • In the box called pleasure: stories. FC2. 1999.

Non-Fiction

  • Ordinary Genius: A True & Beautiful Course in Writing Poetry. W.W. Norton. 2009.
  • Kim Addonizio, Dorianne Laux (1997). The Poet's Companion: A Guide to the Pleasures of Writing Poetry. W. W. Norton & Company.
  • Kim Addonizio, Cheryl Dumesnil, ed (2002). Dorothy Parker's Elbow: Tattoos on Writers, Writers on Tattoos. Diane Publishing Co.
  • Kim Addonizio, Jeb Livingood, ed (2009). Best New Poets 2009: 50 Poems from Emerging Writers. University of Virginia Press.

No Master - William Henry Davies


Indeed this is the sweet life! my hand
Is under no proud man's command;
There is no voice to break my rest
Before a bird has left its nest;
There is no man to change my mood,
When I go nutting in the wood;
No man to pluck my sleeve and say --
I want thy labour for this day;
No man to keep me out of sight,
When that dear Sun is shining bright.
None but my friends shall have command
Upon my time, my heart and hand;
I'll rise from sleep to help a friend,
But let no stranger orders send,
Or hear my curses fast and thick,
Which in his purse-proud throat would stick
Like burrs. If I cannot be free
To do such work as pleases me,
Near woodland pools and under trees,
You'll get no work at all, for I
Would rather live this life and die
A beggar or a thief, than be
A working slave with no days free.


William Henry Davies