Low Fidelity Press

Nietzsche's Horse
poems

by Christopher Kennedy

Trade Paperback
Price: $10.00
64 pages / 5 X 7
ISBN 0-9707802-2-2
Pub. Date: Dec. 2001

Christopher Kennedy’s writing has appeared or will appear in many journals and magazines, including Grand Street, Ploughshares, McSweeney’s, and Mississippi Review. He received a poetry fellowship from the New York Foundation for the Arts in 1999 and a Constance Saltonstall Foundation for the Arts grant in 1997. One of the founding editors of the literary journal, 3rd Bed, he is the Director of the MFA Program in Creative Writing at Syracuse University.

“Singular and deeply pleasurable. Chris Kennedy’s prosetry is a lonely anarchic nation-state unto itself, half vacation funspot, half eerie purgatorial layover. There is joy and dread here, in every carefully considered line, and evidence of a brain committed to giving shape to the thoughts we keep in a small box, on the top shelf, of our darkest, dankest closet.”–Dave Eggers, author of A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius

“A haunting, complex, and very beautiful book. Kennedy has a deep understanding of American longing and the inevitable losses associated with that longing and, because he is a powerful artist, is able to make from that loss a wonderful victory: this moving portrait of the human heart examining itself.”–George Saunders, author of CivilWarLand in Bad Decline

“Nietzsche’s Horse is full of bad luck and surprises; a kind of American life that can turn religion or science or family quickly into a waking dream or nightmare. Christopher Kennedy is a remarkable storyteller, whispering little mysteries to the reader from many rooms in a concave house. Comic, bewildered, and brilliant, Nietzsche’s Horse is a riveting book.” –Michael Burkard, author of The Fires They Kept