Maxima Kahn - Fierce Aria — Sharon Israel Poet

LISTEN to my March, 2021 WIOX Radio conversation with poet Maxima Kahn on her intriguing and deeply felt debut poetry collection Fierce Aria (Finishing Line Press, 2020).

“I have learned to walk into the valley of my fears and losses,” writes Maxima Kahn, and the evidence of what she has learned is all over these amazing poems. Fierce Aria is a book with a post-Wallace Stevens mission: to coax the still perfection of ideas out of the abstract realm, so they can take shape in the messy wilderness of reality. Distinctive, honed, vulnerable, musical, courageous, honest, Maxima Kahn’s poems are fully ripened, fully considered—each one ready to drop richly into the hand like a subtly contoured fruit. Taste them.

–Annie Finch, author of Spells: New and Selected Poems

Maxima Kahn lives in the Sierra Nevada in California. Her poetry and essays have appeared in The Louisville Review, The Los Angeles Review, Wisconsin Review, Spillway, and Sweet, among many others. She has received fellowships and scholarships to the Vermont Studio Center and the Community of Writers. Having taught at the University of California, Davis Extension, she now teaches and blogs at BrilliantPlayground.com. You can find out more about her writing at MaximaKahn.com and get insider access to her creative process and new works at Patreon.com/MaximaKahn.