Two Open Doors in a Field
By Sophie Klahr
2023
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The poems of Two Open Doors in a Field are constructed through deliberate limitations, restlessly exploring place, desire, and spirituality. A profusion of sonnets rises from a single Sophie Klahr’s experience of driving thousands of miles alone while listening to the radio, where unexpected landscapes make listening to the unexpected more acute. Accompanied by the radio, Klahr’s experience of land is transformed by listening, and conversely, the body of the radio is sometimes lost to the body of the land. The love story at the core of this work, Klahr’s bond with Nebraska, becomes the engine of this travelogue. However far the poems range beyond Nebraska, they are tethered to an environment of work and creation, a place of dirt beneath the nails where one can see every star and feel, acutely, the complexity of connection.
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Sophie Klahr
Author · 3 books
Sophie Klahr is the author of Two Open Doors in a Field (Backwaters Press), Meet Me Here at Dawn (YesYes Books) and ______ Versus Recovery (Pilot Books). She is the co-author of There is Only One Ghost in the World (Fiction Collective 2, 2023) alongside Corey Zeller. Her poetry appears in The New Yorker, American Poetry Review, and other publications.
