Lambright, Kimberly: Doom Glove

PRROBLEM, paperback Publication Date: September 16, 2024 Publisher Marketing:  Kimberly Lambright is a poet for whom impression is currency and mood is form. Doom Glove, Lambright's second collection, works with the lyric just as much as against it. These poems are, by turns, surrealist, riotous, and sincere—the confessional past inside the tonal present. Like us, they "lug their own myth to the party." What's at stake in Doom Glove is possibility itself: the unlikely—"out here in the gosh"—becomes not only likely but necessary. If this be doom, one size fits all. To put on the doom glove is to touch the world with fingers dipped in truth serum. At your own risk, allow this collection of lyrically taut poems to shuffle you through paradoxes. Binding oaths are more fragile than casual encounters; Living things are more potent reminders of death than plastic; Cities are refuges from nature as much as they’re prisons for human animals. I barely exhaled as I read Doom Glove by Kimberly Lam