Karla Kelsey’s poetry books include Blood Feather; A Conjoined Book, also published by Omnidawn; Iteration Nets; and Knowledge, Forms, the Aviary, selected by Carolyn Forché for the Sawtooth Poetry Prize. Her book of experimental essays, Of Sphere, was selected by Carla Harryman for the 2016 Essay Press Prize. With Aaron McCollough, she copublishes SplitLevel Texts, a press specializing in hybrid genre projects.

“In On Certainty the Tyrant, the Philosopher and the Poet are triangulated in a struggle for meaning’s definitions within history’s conglomerations and the troubling immediacy of socio-political and ecological disaster. In shimmering fractionalized form Kelsey summons past lives and a projection of possible futures into an event horizon of feminist reckoning. This fierce and elegant saga untangles speculative tautologies to understand dynamic contingency in prismatic, mesmerizing transmissions. I wish the Poet the upper hand in regardening the world.”

Karla Kelsey’s poetry books include Blood Feather; A Conjoined Book, also published by Omnidawn; Iteration Nets; and Knowledge, Forms, the Aviary, selected by Carolyn Forché for the Sawtooth Poetry Prize. Her book of experimental essays, Of Sphere, was selected by Carla Harryman for the 2016 Essay Press Prize. With Aaron McCollough, she copublishes SplitLevel Texts, a press specializing in hybrid genre projects.

“In On Certainty the Tyrant, the Philosopher and the Poet are triangulated in a struggle for meaning’s definitions within history’s conglomerations and the troubling immediacy of socio-political and ecological disaster. In shimmering fractionalized form Kelsey summons past lives and a projection of possible futures into an event horizon of feminist reckoning. This fierce and elegant saga untangles speculative tautologies to understand dynamic contingency in prismatic, mesmerizing transmissions. I wish the Poet the upper hand in regardening the world.”