
Poetry. After selling out its British edition, Mandy Kahn's stunning first collection of poems, Math, Heaven, Time, will be released in an American paperback edition in September of 2016. This is a collection with easy lyricism and clear-eyed wisdom woven effortlessly into its remarkably readable fabric, written by a poet whom World Literature Today calls "a rising star of West Coast poetry." In a review of the book, Work magazine writes, “What Kahn does isn’t make poetry cool but elevates her medium from centuries of intellectual baggage, dusting it off and handing it over to you—the reader—to discover a new voice and a new style. Kahn’s work disallows you from shrugging if off, sending it away to textbooks and fusty journals. You’ll want to pass it around, sharing the experience.” More about Math, Heaven, Time: “Mandy Kahn’s poetry is as fresh as eels. It is for couples who argue on reality TV and do not know that they are houseboats and rare birds. It’s for a hallway full of married men. It’s for making love, and peeing in a field, and a world of loneliness where everyone knows your name. When I first read Math, Heaven, Time I started copying down my favourite lines, such as these. By the time I had finished reading it, I also seemed to be halfway to writing it. I think I was trying to steal it.” —Sophie Heawood, columnist, The Guardian (UK) “In Math, Heaven, Time, the poet achieves a dazzling wingspan, a freedom with form and usage, image and identity, rare as a true crush. Rarer still, Ms. Kahn’s poetry inspires rereading. Every time I go back, I’m struck by the freshness of her language. What could be rarer than a repeatable eureka?” —Brendan Constantine, author of Letters to Guns “This collection is smart and extraordinarily accessible, with a surreptitious mysticism. Can’t you hear Rilke in Kahn? Her poems are savory, lucid, accidentally philosophical. It seems they ask us to live more sincerely.” —Border and Greet Me