This author explores the complexities of human connection and experience with a keen insight. Her work, which seamlessly blends humor and heartache, captures a sensual and evocative quality of life. Through her poetry, she offers a unique perspective on emotion and the everyday, inviting readers into an intimate world.
Exploring the complexities of obsessive love, this collection of poems captures the highs and lows of desire and despair with a blend of humor and emotion. Kim Dower's unique voice offers a heartfelt tribute to the intensity of passion, making the experience of love both relatable and entertaining. Through evocative language, the poems delve into the euphoria and turmoil that accompany such deep feelings, inviting readers to reflect on their own experiences with love.
Acclaimed for combining the accessible and profound, her poems about motherhood are some of her most moving and disarmingly candid. I Wore This Dress Today for You, Mom is an anthology of her poems on being a mother—childbirth to empty nest—as well as being a daughter with all the teenaged messiness, drama and conflict, to finally caring for one's mother suffering from dementia. Culled from her four collections as well as a selection of new work, these poems, heartbreaking, funny, surprising, and touching, explore the quirky, unexpected observations, and bittersweet moments mothers and daughters share. These evocative poems do not glorify mothers, but rather look under the hood of motherhood and explore the deep crevices and emotions of these impenetrable relationships: the love, despair, joy, humor and gratitude that fills our lives.