Systems for the Future of Feeling
Kimberly Grey

In moving paradox, Kimberly Grey’s ingenious poems look to language to explore language’s inadequacies, grappling, as they do so, with disintegrating love and surging terror in a hyper contemporary world. Urgently, Grey explores the need for empathy and consolation—our desire, our responsibility, to express the inexpressible, comprehend the incomprehensible, bear the unbearable.
Systems for the Future of Feeling is both innovative and primordial, a reckoning with our complex and confounding moment.

“Kimberly Grey constructs grammatical worlds as a form of time travel.”
—Alyse Bensel, Colorado review

“Humorous, inventive, playful…”
—William Doreski, The Harvard Review

Kimberly Grey is the author of The Opposite of Light, winner of the 2015 Lexi Rudnisky First Book Prize in Poetry. A former Wallace Stegner at Stanford University, she is currently complete a doctoral degree in creative writing at the University of Cincinnati.

Paperback / $15.95 (Can $21.95) / ISBN 978-0-89255-520-8 / 88 pages / Poetry