Dark Matter

Christine Klocek-Lim's stunning Dark Matter reminds that poetry is an agent of transcendence and percipience. She casts her clear-eyed gaze and wonderment skyward and returns to us earthy, elegiac and astonishing poems of luminous lyricism . . . You'll return to these poems again and again and each time you'll emerge newly awed.
-Patty Paine, Author ofGrief & Other Animals
In these poems, black holes, nebulae, stellar winds and the march of constellations somehow feel like the natural partners of parenting and relationship difficulties, of the joys and upheavals of daily human life. In clear, confident language, the poems condense into wise emotional insights that make this collection as much a map for modern living as they make it an astronomy lesson of astonishing breadth and variety. Bravo!
-Nic Sebastian, Author of Dark and Like A Web and co-founder of The Poetry Storehouse
The perspective of Christine Klocek-Lim's Dark Matter is that of a star-gazer on Earth, a parent with a rich inner life, looking up, "where nothing important / happens quickly." These poems reveal a rare intimacy with the sky, an affinity for the stuff of space, planets, stars, even chaos and collapse. Each lyric is as much a love song to oblivion as it is a portrait of life now.
-Billy Merrell, Author of Talking in the Dark