Famous de Kathleen Flenniken

Famous: The Raz/Shumaker Prairie Schooner Book Prize in Poetry

Kathleen Flenniken

She “became famous, finally, to herself,” Kathleen Flenniken writes. This is the kind of fame at the heart of most lives and at the center of Flenniken’s first collection, the winner of the Prairie Schooner Book Prize in Poetry. Here “a little voice sings / from the back of the auditorium / of my throat. Aren’t all of us / waiting to be discovered?”

The poet’s answer is sometimes grave, sometimes comic, but always tuned to the incidental music of daily life.

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Kathleen Flenniken’s poems have appeared in Poetry, Iowa Review, Mid-American Review, Southern Review, and Prairie Schooner. She was named Washington State Poet Laureate in 2012. Coeditor and president of Floating Bridge Press, a publisher of Washington State poets, Flenniken has taught poetry through Writers in the Schools and other arts agencies. Visit Kathleen Flenniken's website for more information.

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ix Acknowledgments

i Minor Characters
3 The League of Minor Characters
4 It’s Not You, It’s Me
5 The International House of Pancakes
6 lost coat, pls call
8 The Nuns’ Remains
9 Map of the Marriage Bed
10 How to Read This Story to Your Children
12 Elisabeth Reads Poetry
14 Life and Art
15 Passing for Mormon
17 No, you have the wrong number
18 What I Learn Weeding
19 Everybody Wang Chung Tonight
20 Calling Up Ghosts
21 A Middle Child is Born
23 The Physiology of Joy

ii Minor Celebrities
27 Graphology
28 The Minor Celebrities
29 Words drift down on Virgil Suarez
30 Sarah Chang plays violin
31 Pantoum for Jane Goodall
32 Edna St. Vincent Millay’s Husband
33 Built Like That
34 What I Saw

35 Conversation with a Sensualist
36 Dust
37 Lessons in Trigonometry
38 Colonel Mustard Between Games
39 Sea Monster
41 Shampoo
42 Gil’s Story
44 If We Could Live Here
46 The Beauty of the Curve
48 Sotto Voce

iii Fame
53 Fireball
55 Preservation
57 One Night
59 Natural History
60 The Sound of a Train
61 My father invented the calendar
62 My Mother’s Biographies
63 Woman Reading
64 Murder Mystery
65 Reading Hamilton’s Biography of Robert Lowell
66 Anaïs Nin on the Sales Table
68 Miss Marianne Moore Takes a Tango Lesson
69 To Ease My Mind
71 Two Dreams of Infi nity
72 An Informal Visitation
73 The New Language
74 Prayer Animals

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"[Famous] weaves together two seemingly antithetical themes: the comic indignations and attractions of minor celebrities, and the everyday joys and sorrows of family life. . . . Ordinariness—our need for it, and our frustrations with it—becomes Flenniken's signature subject: the quietest evenings 'make you what you are.' Flenniken . . . has fashioned a poetry comfortable with self-imposed limits. . . . She still finds herself searching after mysteries, in board games, novels, and her own life." —Publishers Weekly Annex

"There's a winning surface modesty here: it isn't Abraham Lincoln who merits the poem, but his oft-maligned wife; not Edna St. Vincent Millay, but her stay-at-home husband; not the Taj Mahal, but the everyday International House of Pancakes. Still, in Flenniken's hands, these occasions rise toward urgent news—as when, in 'Shampoo,' the memory of a mother's declining health soulfully becomes one with the headline about a submarine's sinking—until the leastmost of us are transformed, poem by poem, into the famous."—Albert Goldbarth, author of Saving Lives, winner of the National Book Critics Circle Award

"Unpretentious, self-effacing, earthy, funny, and wise."—Peggy Shumaker, author of Blaze

"Exploring the external trappings of contemporary life as well as the internal cadences of a mind that wants at once to be 'shocking and irresistible,' Kathleen Flenniken takes us into the slipstreams of fame, where our daily dramas play themselves out in the 'wild uncoded rhythms' of the imagination."—Judith Kitchen, author of The House on Eccles Road

"There's a consistency of voice and diction in Famous that satisfies and a carefully rendered emotional core to the poems, which quietly surprises."—Stephen Dunn, Pulitzer Prize–winning author of Different Hours

“There is not a shred of pretentiousness [in these poems]. . . . Famous is a genuine treasure, which undoubtedly is why it was awarded the 2005 Prairie Schooner Book Prize in Poetry.”—The Seattle Times

“What emerges from the poems, taken as a group and as a loose narrative, is a familiar and mundane persona that could correspond to that of many middle-class American female poets. . . . [B]ut this life is, beautifully and completely, transformed into art. . . . [I]t is rare to come across a poet of familiar contemporary experience like Kathleen Flenniken, whose imaginative, convincing tropes, sense of rhythm and sound, sharp intellect, narrative instinct, and resistance to cliche transform that experience into art so compelling that it makes us wonder how have we come to doubt it could be done?”—Bloomsbury Review

“A rich offering of plain but musical language and understated irony. . . . These poems are routinely surprising, filled with memorable imagery and delightful comparisons that will stay with the reader for a long time. —42opus.com

“[Flenniken’s] own poems pluck out the most ordinary moments of everyday life and probe for the extraordinary.” —Barbara McMichael, Olympian (Olympia, WA)

“With simple and honest language [Flenniken] weaves a journey of common, everyday moments that make up the human experience and giver her readers an unpretentious look at our very own reputations as parents, wives, husbands, children, and creators. . . . This is not a collection of poems one should read only once.”—Stacey Rollins, Big Muddy: A Journal of the Mississippi

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