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ABOUT KATHRYN KIRKPATRICK Kathryn Kirkpatrick lives in Vilas, North Carolina, and is a professor of English at Appalachian State University. She holds a Ph.D. in Interdisciplinary Studies from Emory University, where she received an Academy of American Poets poetry prize. Her first book of poems, The Body's Horizon (Signal Books), won the Brockman-Campbell award, selected by Alicia Ostriker. | |||||||||
Kathryn Kirkpatrick $12.00
ISBN: 1-931247-09-9 "Sensual and sage, these poems maintain a taut balance between the vicissitudes of feeling and the consolations of wisdom. This poet’s delicious words do please—the ear, the mind and the heart—as they remind us that out of loss can come release and renewal, in part through the joys of language itself. The final poem, ‘Looking for Ceilidh,’ is nothing short of stunning.” —Susan Ludvigson “Now the quarter-billion Americans who refuse to read poetry have even more to regret, because they’re missing the experience of getting to know Kathryn Kirkpatrick’s poems and their bounty of pleasures: scope, savvy, humor, learning, eloquence, unpredictability, and willingness to take chances.” —William Harmon “Lucid, tender, and life-filled, able to face heartache, precise in their evocation of sensuous experience, these are poems to treasure.” —Alicia Suskin Ostriker
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