Trama

Poetry. Kim Rosenfield's TRAMA is her first book since the award-winning GOOD MORNING--MIDNIGHT--of 2001. TRAMA is both a festive and a frightening book--Rosenfield has the quiet tones of Gepetto's workshop, the mummery of harlequinade, and the terror of the giant swallowing fish. "TRAMA," she says, "embodies a child's tale but redesigns it to pit the mistranslated circus of personal ambition against public episodes of wronged military might." "Kim Rosenfield narrates the trajectory of 'an unluxurious piece of wood' in a unique language whose inflections have an exhilarating effect. Her TRAMA is a dance of the elements charged with a keen sense of the absurd"--Rodrigo Rey Rosa.