Leland Kinsey

Sledding on Hospital Hill Leland Kinsey 1st edition

In this new collection by a poet whom Edward Hoagland called the genuine article, we find work that is grounded in its chosen territory (Vermont's Northeast Kingdom) and that speaks to us clearly and directly. Kinsey is a poet of both place and people. In a voice that is at times gritty, confessional, humorous, and reflective (and always clear), he takes on real events and invests them with universal meaning. In a time when much poetry has become so oblique and opaque that it requires a scholarly interpreter, Kinsey's clarity comes as welcome relief - dry, skeptical, and clean.