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Karin Gottshall

Sile et philosophus esto.

About Me

I am a poet whose work has appeared in The New England Review, Virginia Quarterly Review, The Gettysburg Review, and many other journals. My book of poems, Crocus , was published by Fordham University Press in April, 2007.My poems "The Ashes" and "The Raspberry Room" can be read at American Life in Poetry, "The Exile's Tale" and "Virginity" are at VQR, and "The Current" is at Poetry Daily. To find out more about me, read my blog, Cafe Babblecat . You can also find me on Facebook .


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My Interests

Poetry, fiction, cats, Italian, ice skating, music, temple tigers, fountains, gumball machines, wind in the trees.

I'd like to meet:

Friends

Music:

Neko Case, Sonya Cotton, Tom Waits, Joni Mitchell, Solas, Bonnie "Prince" Billy.

Movies:

Silents, especially Buster Keaton. Also animation and anime--anything by Miyazaki. The Iron Giant, Days of Heaven, The Triplets of Belleville, Manhattan, Pinocchio, Grizzly Man, Fly Away Home, Alien, Edward Scissorhands.

Television:

Buffy the Vampire Slayer, Battlestar Galactica, Veronica Mars, Rome.

Books:

John Ashbery, Aimee Bender, Linda Bierds, Elizabeth Bishop, William Blake, Jorge Luis Borges, Bronte, Bronte, Bronte, Anne Carson, Mark Cox, Charles Dickens, Emily Dickinson, Mark Doty, Jack Gilbert, Seamus Heaney, Kelly Link, Vladimir Nabokov, Philip Pullman, Marilynne Robinson, Mary Ruefle, William Shakespeare, Wislawa Szymborska, Wallace Stevens, Virginia Woolf... I could go on and on.I just started studying Italian, so I also have to include my new bible: Parliamo Italiano!

Heroes:

My husband and my cats and my friends.