Praise for Cold Storage
“Keith Althaus has been writing some of the most hauntingly beautiful poems I’ve ever read for as long as I can remember. Somehow (maybe even more so now) he stands in sardonic wonder at all he encounters, both in and out of his mind. I too stand in wonder at the gifts he fashions from all this unknown.”
Another Bullshit Night in Suck City and My Feelings
“Cold Storage is filled with those enigmas so frequently found at the heart of the real. It possesses a shrewd, sad wonder at how and where we live, and a honed awareness that nothing is quite what it seems, people least of all. It is a book like no other at this crazed, ridiculous moment on our beautiful, sorrowing planet.”
“Sometimes in the daylight world (‘We make our own light, / as much as we can stand...’), sometimes just before sleep at night (‘something moving / just below the surface’), these poems are talking for us with their beloved Rilke. This is a plain-spoken, original, mysterious, and loving book to turn back and back to.”
About the Author
Keith Althaus is the author of two other poetry collections, Rival Heavens (Provincetown Arts Press, 1993) and Ladder of Hours (Ausable Press, 2005). He has received a Pushcart Prize as well as grants from the National Endowment for the Arts and the Massachusetts Foundation of the Arts. In 1969 he was one of the first Writing Fellows at the Fine Arts Work Center in Provincetown, Massachusetts. He lives on Cape Cod with his wife, the artist Susan Baker.
