D. Cates - THE MYSTERIOUS LOCATION OF KYRGYZSTAN - Paperback

David Allen Cates, MFA Author In a startling voice—meditative, playful, and erotic—David Allan Cates, award-winning writer of five novels, uses memory and imagination to create indelible images of the body and desire, of separation and longing. Located between the exotic and the domestic, between the lived and imagined, these nineteen poems, some of which appeared previously in The Sun and Transmission, among other publications, describe the off-balance and dangerous dance of lovers. Because of, and despite, a world in which bombs fall and luck turns bad, the speaker in these poems struggles to situate himself: in a pond, on the ledge of a cliff, or through his own re-invention of the world. “Sparks fall and I seek shelter where I can—/naked on the wing, a hero in wet socks—/but I’m flattering myself again./It’s raining stars, love, I’ll say, and maybe you'll hear me./Maybe I'll feel you near." I have been an admirer of David Allan Cates’ exquisite fiction since the publication of a ch