Chance of Lightning

Apr 2025 · Vassar Miller Prize in Poetry Kitabu cha 32 · University of North Texas Press

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Chance of Lightning is a striking meditation on human fragility and resilience. Sonnets, prose poems, and experiments in lyrical verse—resonant with the Southern Gothic but grounded firmly in indefatigable hope—create a world of imaginary lottery winners, from a man who invests his windfall in a dove-release business to a woman who tracks down every person she’s ever kissed, and explore themes of birth, death, loss, and survival. The collection will appeal to admirers of both magic and realism. It’s a precarious love letter that wagers the mystery against easy answers and unflinching vulnerability against inevitable misfortune.

“Kristin Robertson’s Chance of Lightning is electric and sharp. From a crown of sonnets likening love to the elements of the periodic table to a sequence of poems imagining what lottery winners might do with their winnings if they hit the jackpot, Robertson’s way with language, image, and thought is dazzling and fresh. The features of this book’s landscapes are grounded and rich: Corvettes, Kenny Rogers songs, a funerary bouquet in the shape of a telephone, glitter-covered coffins, a goldfish in a plastic cup, a stud in an earring gun, and mullets tossed across state lines. Above all, there is wonder, the poet looking at each thing she examines as if for the first time, seeing all of its wild possibilities. With humor, punch, and heart, Chance of Lightning strikes deep into what is elemental, what is luck, what is loss, and what is love. Every page of this book surprised me. Kristin Robertson is a poet to watch.”—Melissa H. Range, judge and author of Scriptorium: Poems

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KRISTIN ROBERTSON’s Surgical Wing was published by Alice James Books in 2017. Her poems have appeared in Ploughshares, the Southern Review, the Threepenny Review, Kenyon Review Online, and Harvard Review, among other journals. Kristin is an assistant professor of writing and literature at Mercer University and lives in Georgia with her husband and daughter.

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