A collection that begins with this line..."Once we even used bacon
grease-" is one that gets your attention quickly. Readers realize
soon that this collection tells the story of the diagnosis,
treatment, and recovery from breast cancer. The shock of diagnosis
gives way to a poet's wondering why and how and when, and then poet
Kirkpatrick takes her readers through the entire course. There is
the clinical reality that begins with denial and gives way to words
a woman "never imagined you'd ever need to hear: it's time to save
your life."Along the way in this lyrical path, there is the
kindness of strangers, like the woman whose son is in chemo who
befriends the narrator, and the lover who gently touches her scars
as an act of foreplay. Ms. Kirkpatrick has also found humor in the
struggle in the stories of others, like Glenda who works topless
and breastless in her garden even when the neighbors call the cops
on her and Donna who gets so excited flat-foot dancing that she
takes out her Dolly Parton prostheses and flings them at her
surprised partner. Through the course of this collection Ms.
Kirkpatrick finds success and hope-small and large-and recovery.
Within Unaccountable Weather, the poet's stance and tone remain
straight ahead, objective. There is no sentimentalism in this dance
between life and death.
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