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When Kathleen Driskell tells her husband that she's gone to visit
the neighbors, she means something different than most. The noted
poet -- whose last book, Seed across Snow, was twice listed as a
national bestseller by the Poetry Foundation -- lives in an old
country church just outside Louisville, Kentucky. Next door is an
old graveyard that she was told had fallen out of use. In this
marvelous new collection, this turns out not to be the case as the
poet's fascination with the "neighbors" brings the burial ground
back to life. Driskell frequently strolls the cemetery grounds,
imagining the lives and loves of those buried beside her property.
These "neighbors," with burial dates as early as 1848, inspire
poems that weave stories, real and imagined, from the epitaphs and
unmarked graves. Shifting between perspectives, she embraces and
inhabits the voices of those laid to rest while also describing the
grounds, the man who mows around the markers, and even the flocks
of black birds that hover above before settling amongst the
gravestones. Next Door to the Dead transcends time and place,
linking the often disconnected worlds of the living and the
deceased. Just as examining the tombstones forces the author to
look more closely at her own life, Driskell's poems and their muses
compel us to examine our own mortality, as well as how we impact
the finite lives of those around us.
When Kathleen Driskell pulled an old edition of Emily Post’s
Etiquette from the used bookstore shelf and blew dust off the blue
linen cover, she instantly found herself and her family within
those pages—not as the Worldlys, Oldlineages, or the Gildings
(archetypes Post created to demonstrate how to properly manage a
grand house full of servants), but as the housemaids, cooks, and
useful men working for those very rich. The noted poet—whose
collection Seed Across Snow was twice listed as a national
bestseller by the Poetry Foundation—explores class, the
workplace, and those tense interactions between the haves and the
have nots in her new collection. As America watches its
middle-class quickly decline, Blue Etiquette rings with relevance.
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