The Search Engine

Irresistible wrote Nobel Laureate Derek Walcott when he selected KathleenOssips <strong>The Search Engine</strong> for the Honickman Prize from more than 1000ma... » 

Irresistible wrote Nobel Laureate Derek Walcott when he selected KathleenOssips The Search Engine for the Honickman Prize from more than 1000manuscripts. You feel like quoting her Walcott continued because she is .. . so fresh and so open. Ossips poetry is wordrich and musiclush infusedwith fastidious hilarity and a genuine intelligence. It is a poetry of nerveswith a hunger for subtlety. She admits her influences easily using pop songsand academic quotes in a selfconfessed even parodic search for her voice. AsRichard Howard remarks An astonishment this first book and what a comfortKathleen Ossip teaches at The New School. Her poetry has appeared in BestAmerican Poetry and The Paris Review. She lives outside New York City. «