Poetry with James Kimbrell

James Kimbrell is a professional poet and professor at Florida State University, and we get the pleasure of hearing him read some selections from his new book The Law of Truly Large Numbers. He’ll be here at Mosey’s in the back room this Saturday May 24th at 7:30 with fellow writer and FSU PHD student Ian Hall. Y’all come hang with Uncle Jimmy and Ian and snag a book!

“James Kimbrell is an American master. His poems are perfectly balanced, giving us just enough moments of laughter to keep us from crying—as Shakespeare might’ve observed, ‘He uses his folly like a stalking-horse, and under the presentation of that he shoots his wit.’ Kimbrell rides the line between this world and the next at one hundred miles per hour in a ’72 Dodge Duster—reminding the reader, in order to keep up, ‘You need to keep the camera moving at the same speed.’ Kimbrell shakes us into a new perspective where we look up from the book at a giant mirror in the sky and ‘gain the illusion of spaciousness.’
-Travis Mossotti, author of Apocryphal Genesis

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