CUTTING TEETH
K.J. Stevens
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CUTTING TEETH is a book of one hundred percent pure dynamite. It blows me away that K.J. Stevens is only 38 years old, and is writing at this level. This is a fine collection of short stories and journal entries that breathe beauty.

These stories are of the soil. Now, granted, sometimes that soil is rich and dark, but you need not worry, for you will be hooked. This is just a fine collection by a writer that just totally took me off guard. According to his biography, Stevens is the author of five previous books, and I'll go on record as saying this: I am going to personally going to hunt down every one of those titles, because this author left me hungry for more.

Trust me, you will not go wrong investing in the work of K. J. Stevens. This is some unique, cutting-edge writing. I just love the book. So, in closing, what are you waiting for, kids? Get outta your chair, go down to your local bookstore. If they don't have a copy of CUTTING TEETH, have them order it. Make those book dealers do their jobs.

~ Poet, B.L. Kennedy

B.L. Kennedy has authored 25 books, including Jim Morrison Visits Disneyland, Screaming Pygmies, and Been Born Bronx. He has been published in over a dozen different anthologies. He has received awards and honors throughout his career, including the Lifetime Achievement Award from the Sacramento Poetry Center. He studied with Allen Ginsberg, Anne Waldman, Robert Creeley, and Kathy Acker. Kennedy directed the widely-respected film, I Began To Speak - An Informal History Of Poetry In Sacramento 1964 To 2007.

K.J. Stevens (born June 4, 1973) is an American novelist and short story writer. He has written six books. In 2007, his first novel, Pilgrim's Bay was released. In 2016, Black, a novella, was published.

Stevens' writing style is described as minimalist. Ernest Hemingway, J.D. Salinger, Amanda Davis, Raymond Carver, David Shaw and Flannery O'Connor have been attributed as his influences.

Stevens was born in Alpena, Michigan. He attended Central Michigan University and studied creative writing at Hamline University in Saint Paul, Minnesota. Currently, he and his wife (artist, Brooke Stevens) live in Alpena, Michigan. They have two children.