Introducing 12 Lifetimes: A Century Cycle by Heidi Kraay
Heidi Kraay’s new book 12 Lifetimes: A Century Cycle is memoir when it wants to be and poetry when it needs to be. Using the century format which allows for a hundred numbered statements in each section of poetry, 12 Lifetimes is both expansive and direct. There is not an extra word or unnecessary gesture in this gorgeous book that will leave you wanting to call up your oldest friend and tell them you love them.
Available now for pre-order from Modern Mythographer Press.
Heidi Kraay
Playwright and writer-across-disciplines Heidi Kraay examines the link between brain and body, seeking empathy with fractured characters. Her writing pulls myth, metaphor and monsters together to discover connections across difference.
Advance Praise for 12 Lifetimes
“The form is fascinating, spacious, and inciting. The form (and Table of Contents, which feels a poem in itself) reflects the wisdom learned from a life (or 12!). Reflected too is the ancient philosophy that we learn compassion/wisdom only through loss and suffering. There is really no other way through the human condition.”
– Elisabeth Sharp McKetta, author of Edit Your Life
“This book is a phenomenon: It quietly takes my breath away, probes me to see. Each century, 100 moments of honesty and the unexpected. A genuine rarity.”
– Cindy Shearer, Program Chair, MFA in Interdisciplinary Arts & Writing, CIIS