The poet reminds herself that there is no fear in writing, as there is no fear in imagining — only the words and the images that carry the reader to a place of problematic delight.

—Francesc Parcerisas
Still Life with Children, translated from Catalan by Cyrus Cassells
Stephen F. Austin University Press

AKaiser’s richly lyrical glint is a book of refractions and fracturing: a collection that cracks the interior cleanly open, allowing for light and insight to bend and enter through myriad angles. These are poems constantly in motion…[poems of] a self transmuted and made strange through desire, illness, motherhood, revolution, and the distances the body can cover. Kaiser…reckons arrestingly with loss and regeneration—historical, familial, personal—and casts a keen eye toward “boundaries between / mutable and imperishable.” These poems startle by the glint of their own making—
a remarkable debut.

— Jenny Xie
Eye Level, winner, Walt Whitman Award, Graywolf Press

Everything that can be seen out of the corner of one’s eye has a voice in AKaiser’s glint. …from a blues singer to the “texture of forgotten peaches.” These are careful meditations on how the world works; bodies in love and growing absent, things rooting for breath, hard questions from a child, riots of colors, and the natural world is a velvet ear. And while the body and the universe are on the same footing, Kaiser engages honestly about the violence in the weeds and in humanity…

— Cynthia Manick
Blue Hallelujahs, Black Lawrence Press

The form of [AKaiser’s] Michelangelo’s Slaves feels so much like a block of marble facing Michelangelo, waiting to be carved, waiting for all that potential to be unlocked, which is, of course, also […] the poet…waiting to unfold.

— Dell Lemmon
Are You Somebody I Should Know?, Box Turtle Press

glint
Co-winner: inaugural Milk and Cake Book Prize
www.milkandcakepress.com
Pushcart nominated poems
December 2019

Launch: Berl’s Brooklyn Poetry Shop
January 2020

Also available at:
ARAS
Fairhope Public Library
Poets House
Grolier Poetry Book Shop

Horse Behavior
Pushcart nomination
Translated into several languages. See below, -translations-, & stay tuned for more

Arson
After Fire by Greg Kaiser

The Sound of Clothes
Pushcart nomination
Winner, Sow’s Ear Poetry Review Poetry Prize, 2017

Gaëlle Cogan has translated into French a sample of poems from glint.
Reach out to Gaëlle @ gaellecogan.com

Horse Behavior, a Pushcart Prize-nominated poem, has been translated into Catalan (in glint) and also into French, Georgian, German, Gĩkũyũ, Icelandic, Italian, Korean, Latin, Portuguese, Romanche, and Spanish (Argentina).

— Translated by Francesc Parcerisas, Marine Cornuet, Giorgi Svanidze, Daniel Schilling, Ngũgĩ wa Thiong’o, Kári Tulinius, Simona Mancini Ae Hee Lee, Simona Mancini , Dean Thomas Ellis, Walter Roselli and Silvina López Medin, respectively.

Here is a link to the Sant Jordi NYC Book Festival 2020, where I read Horse Behavior myself, followed by some of the translators and their reading of their translations of the poem:
https://www.santjordinyc.org/program