Sunbathing on Tyrone Power's Grave
**Gold Medal in Poetry from the Independent Publisher Books Awards**
In Kim Dower's fourth collection, Sunbathing on Tyrone Power's Grave, death has never felt so alive! Alluring titles to haunting last lines, the poems in Dower's fourth collection soothe, terrify, and always surprise, revealing the extraordinary within the ordinary.
Acclaimed for combining the accessible and profound, humor and heartache, Dower's poetry continues to be quirky, dark, sexy, disarmingly candid, and moving, and here she explores the landscape of death and its intersections with love, longing, obsession, sadness, joy, and beauty. Wise and soaring, these poems bravely imagine another life beyond the one we all know where even the angels surrounding the graves are wearing bikinis, smoking Kool Lights.
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Kim Dower, born and raised on the Upper West Side of Manhattan, is the former City Poet Laureate for West Hollywood, California. She is the author of five highly acclaimed collections of poetry, including the Los Angeles Times bestseller and 2023 Eric Hoffer Book Award Finalist, I Wore This Dress Today for You, Mom; the 2020 Gold IPPY Awards winner, Sunbathing on Tyrone Power's Grave; Air Kissing on Mars; and Slice of Moon. Dower's poems have been featured on Garrison Keillor's The Writer's Almanac and Ted Kooser's American Life in Poetry, as well as in many anthologies and journals, including Ploughshares, James Dickey Review, Plume, and Barrow Street. She teaches poetry workshops for Antioch University, UCLA Extension, and the West Hollywood Library. Kim lives with her family in West Hollywood, California.
"Unexpected and sublime."
--O Magazine on Slice of Moon
Interview and Reading with Kim Dower on Satallite Sisters Podcast
The San Diego Tribune interview with Kim Dower and Erica Jong
Radio Pet Lady (Featuring Kim Dower)
Kim Dower's article for O Magazine on Good Bones by Maggie Smith
"Bold and sexy and smart."
--Stephen Dunn
By turns exuberant, sexy and sobering, Kim Dower's remarkable poems are known for their extraordinary range. This fourth collection finds her at the top of her game. Attuned to the oddness of the quotidian and grounding the metaphysical in the sharp sensations of daily life, the poems in Sunbathing on Tyrone Power's Grave invite us to live as fully and generously as the poet herself.
--Chris Kraus, bestselling author of I Love Dick and After Kathy Acker
"Kim Dower['s] poetry is stunning."
--John Mutter, founder of Shelf Awareness,
"Provocative and richly rewarding poetry."
--Jonathan Kirsch, Jewish Journal Review
Kim Dower's poetry has a way of transforming everyday life into something luminous and unexpected. Simultaneously accessible and complex, whimsical and heartbreaking, Dower's poetry shines with subtle irony and playful imagination, written in a way that is empathetic and relatable, as well as full of wisdom. Something about Kim Dower's poetry always seems trustworthy.
--Culture Trip
