THRESH: to beat mechanically, to drub, to whip. Minkus’ second collection of p0etry, Thresh, is a sensual linguistic trip through the daily violence of affluence. Voyeuristic and punishing, the language in this collection addresses the unlikely mechanistic rumblings of the sex doll factory floor; the progress of the Stations of the Cross; and the intricacies and polarities of female purification. Each poem lovingly hammers, pounds, teases and scratches at the fallacies of control and ownership. “ready? flail.”
Kim Minkus is a Vancouver based poet, researcher and writing instructor. Thresh is her second collection of poetry, with LINEbooks javing published her first book of poetry, 9 Freight, in the fall of 2007. She has published in FRONT Magazine, Interim,West Coast Line, The Poetic Front, LOCUSPOINT, ottawater, Memewar and Jacket. She currently teaches at Capilano University.