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Black Holes & Their Feeding Habits
Black Holes and Their Feeding Habits
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Carlina Duan, Alien Miss
"In Kiyoko Reidy's Black Holes and their Feeding Habits," the poet illuminates worlds that are exquisite, shimmering, made tender by awe and grief. We encounter "monarch wings resplendent as church windows," an obaasan laying flowers at a cemetery, and oranges "like fist sized-fires alight / in the branches." In the wisdom of these poems, there lives a keen recognition of the self shape-shifting towards the light. Reidy's lush attention to textures of care teach us to open ourselves to the world "wildly, marveling at all this abundance."
Major Jackson, Razzle Dazzle: New and Selected Poems 2002-2022
"Kiyoko Reidy’s uncanny poems retain all the magic found in language, and thus, gorgeously charts a path of care and wisdom that renders us less bewildered by the challenges of living. Black Holes and Their Feeding Habitsresuscitates my belief in forms to sustain and revive the world in our ears as real as “ripe mango[es] pass[ing] / over the mind’s landscape.” Reading these poems is like standing by a waterfall listening to the rush of water all around us."
Mark Jarman, Zeno's Eternity
"Kiyoko Reidy’s poems enact an aspiration of life itself, to be necessary and enduring, both transcendent and everpresent. They reach out to family relations, in particular, a grandmother’s legacy, a brother’s tragedy. They are elegies for the living, as she suggests in one poem, rehearsals for grief. But as her title implies, black holes are not absences. They are, like these poems, present and alive."
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