Supper & Repair Kit
by Nicole Wilson
"Both a reflection of body and of the self, and a record of its voluntary and involuntary changes, Nicole Wilson's poetry collection Supper & Repair Kit explores the force of personal will on bodies, of culture and expectation, and the power of happenstance over human beings. Composed of four long poems that incorporate image and non-language marks into their structures, Wilson explores how to re-make the self through language and body.
- m. forajter in Heavy Feather Review
"Wilson's speaker cannot escape the loss of her sister, but she does wish for "a new / taste bud," a new coping mechanism for dealing with the pain. And I wonder—what can she ask for beyond writing, beyond the field notes she gathers to reconstruct her twin?"
- Jacob Victorine in Muzzle Magazine
Buy Supper & Repair Kit
2013 | 60 pp | 978-0-9911863-0-3
Excerpt from Supper & Repair Kit
Please leave me a new
taste bud for eating
this gravel & I will marry it
& I will thank you &
I will put my fork down
twofold as the waltz
of the marigold
where buried the moon
wedged inside a hound
came howling and she curled
around the perfect squares
of my calendar.