Exploded View — Book of Poetry

Exploded View

Poems by Mark Kessinger

Originally published in 1983 by the Cleveland State University Poetry Center, Exploded View returns in this newly formatted digital edition. These poems explore the fracture lines of memory, family, body, and inheritance—rendered in stark clarity and elliptical grace.

“One of the young voices worth watching.”
— Nikki Giovanni

Be there from the beginning. See how a young poet starts.

With a mechanic’s eye and a poet’s nerve, Kessinger disassembles the emotional machinery of domestic life and reconstructs it in language spare, strange, and startling. Each poem is a diagram of pressure points: of family pressure, interior heat, sudden quiet.

This edition includes all original poems, newly typeset and released by Horizon Pilot Press.

28 poems · 42 pages · Digital PDF edition