Kristina Marie Darling is the author of fifteen previous books, which include Melancholia (An Essay) (Ravenna Press, 2012), Petrarchan (BlazeVOX Books, 2013), and a forthcoming hybrid genre collection called Fortress (Sundress Publications, 2014). Her awards include fellowships from Yaddo, the Helene Wurlitzer Foundation, and the Hawthornden Castle International Retreat for Writers, as well as grants from the Kittredge Fund and the Elizabeth George Foundation. She is currently working toward a Ph.D. in Poetics at S.U.N.Y.-Buffalo.

Other poems by Kristina Marie Darling in Verse Daily:
September 13, 2013:   "3-Tiered Steamer" (with Carol Guess) "My pink comes from before...."
March 4, 2012:   "Aviary" "A cold moon rises over glittering cages & you fasten..."

Books by Kristina Marie Darling:

Other poems on the web by Kristina Marie Darling:
Five poems
Five poems
"Adelle Steals the Key To"
"Notes on the Fin de Siècle"
"Notes to a History of Bird Keeping"
"Lorenz’s Hypothesis"
Three poems
Two poems
Three poems
Three poems
Two poems
Three poems

Kristina Marie Darling's Website.

About The Arctic Circle:

"The Arctic Circle defines the latitude above which, for one day each year, the sun never rises (and on another day, never sets). But because of the changing tilt of the Earth's axis, its location is not fixed. Kristina Marie Darling's collection, The Arctic Circle, describes a world that is both utter in its dark outcome and variable in its bright details. Using a collage of perspectives, erasures, and illustrations, Darling explores the loss of identity through marriage. And when the ghost arrives--"She carried no purse, and no luggage, as though everything she needed was already here"--these poems begin to question the very accuracy and power of desire."
—Cecilia Woloch

"The Arctic Circle defines the latitude above which, for one day each year, the sun never rises (and on another day, never sets). But because of the changing tilt of the Earth's axis, its location is not fixed. Kristina Marie Darling's collection, The Arctic Circle, describes a world that is both utter in its dark outcome and variable in its bright details. Using a collage of perspectives, erasures, and illustrations, Darling explores the loss of identity through marriage. And when the ghost arrives--"She carried no purse, and no luggage, as though everything she needed was already here"--these poems begin to question the very accuracy and power of desire."
—Sandra Beasley

"Two brides crystalize into one entity then split, climatic conditions echo and advance deeply lodged psycho-somatic realities—The Arctic Circle is a cautionary tale about flawed repetition and imprisoned categories of sex. Operating simultaneously as interior and exterior drama, these icy prose poems move as if from the caged, claustrophobic bedroom presented in Charlotte Perkins Gilman’s The Yellow Wallpaper to an outer ecology that moves from house (the body) to an exorbitant surrounding environment (the social). The symmetrical aspects of this narrative make for a pristine evocation of crisis and overcoming. Kristina Darling’s fable resists disintegration, challenging instead a forceful awareness. The dynamics here do not permit abjection to pulverize presence."
—Brenda Iijima