“The poems in Kairos are somehow both extravagant and terse—extravagant in their desire to achieve “the alchemy of the possible," to find “that moment when/the flower swirls gently open;" and terse in the sense that each word works hard, each is hard-won and as precise as a laser beam. These are wonderful poems. Kevin Kreiger takes us time and time again, as the title suggests, into the supreme moment, into the still moment, never abandoning the delights of the actual world.”
—Gail Wronsky, author of So Quick Bright Things and Poems for Infidels
“The term Kairos refers to “a moment of indeterminate time” but there’s nothing indeterminate about Kevin Kreiger’s new poetry collection. In his Kairos,
lofts over personal mythologies like “a butterfly above the median” that “drifts// from one world to//the next, water through/water.” These “living prayers” assess masculine and feminine, circle to “touch the land again & again,/tasting for what is/actual.” And the metaphorical land is his life—the “space that yearns to be known”—savoring the sweet as well as the bitter, giving both their deeply introspective due. Vivid, dark, and musical, the poetry in Kairos seeks to know no less than God and desire.”
—Jim Natal, author of 52 Views and Memory and Rain
