Opening The Doors Of The Temple

Synopsis

Annalee Kwochka's Opening The Doors Of The Temple Cries And Decries, The Powerful, Desolate Person At The Center Of These Poems A Victim Of Wonder And Woe. She's Right To Invoke Sexton, Freud, And Kübler-ross, To Name The Terms Of Her Sentencing. And The Poems Are Right As Well-too Right, Down To The Meanest Enjambment, 'always So Carefully / Pieced Together,' And Full Of Terror. ~ Alan Michael Parker The Twenty Poems In Opening The Doors Of The Temple Are A Remarkable Coming Of Age Cycle, Where Private And Public Self Are Scrutinized, Revealed, Reviled And Celebrated. These Poems Are As Rigorously Crafted As They Are Unflappable In Their Courage. Annalee Kwochka's Mature Debut Is A Thrilling Glimpse From A Poet I Am Certain We'll Have The Good Fortune To Read For Many Many Years. ~ Dr. Victoria Redel