Paradoxx

Author: Kate Colby

Publisher: Essay Press (2025)

“What’s changed more since I was born, the world or my perception of it?” In Paradoxx, Kate Colby applies her humor and exacting intelligence to teasing out tangles in relationships between memory, signification, and human perception. A one-hundred-day chronicle of a dark period in the author’s life, this tightly-wound lyric essay is also a memoir of growing up in the late 20th century and stumbling into the 21st. Full of startling insight and observational detail, Colby’s tenth book shows a poet’s mind at work deep in the trenches of thought and language.