Cinema, Kink and California

Natasha Dennerstein's new book of poetry Triptych Caliform is a three-part collection consisting of a Cinema section, a Kink section and a California section. The poems are in dialogue with each other across the sections. It will be published by Norfolk Press in September 2016. She will read poems from  Triptych Caliform Monday, June 13, 7 pm, at Books Inc. Castro, in the 2016 Pride Poetry Panel. This is an event in the continuing reading series Perfectly Queer. https://www.facebook.com/events/207796866274145/

Natasha was born in Melbourne, Australia to a family originating from Belarus. She worked as a psychiatric nurse for 20 years, which gave her an interesting perspective on the human condition. In 2016, she graduated with an MFA from San Francisco State University. She has had poetry published in numerous journals, including Shenandoah, Bloom, Red Light Lit, Spoon River Poetry Review, and Foglifter. Anatomize, her first collection, was inspired by the body. It was published last year, also by Norfolk Press.  

"In Anatomize, Natasha Dennerstein is the poet as a sensual anatomist, delineating the corporeal realm with a kind of spiritual fervor. What we are, we are, she splendidly affirms, from our heads down to our toes.  Reciting the saga of her own encounters with mortality, with beginnings and endings, with all that flesh entails, she declares with a Whitmanesque lyricism the song of herself--her individual take on our common humanity."  --David Eagleton, editor, Landfall Journal

(author photo by Jose Colon)