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The eighth volume of poetry by a well-known poet and literary citizen with a sizeable and devoted readership.
Furthers Coles's cross-disciplinary work of considering questions of science and nature from a poet's perspective.
Part of our JOAN BOOKS series, which showcases the voices and stories of women who forge their own paths. Her previous books with us, Look Both Ways and The Stranger I Become, are part of the same series.
Katharine Coles is the author of two novels, eight collections of poems, the essay collection The Stranger I Become, and the memoir Look Both Ways. The recipient of grants from the NEA, the NEH, and the Guggenheim Foundation, she has served as Poet Laureate of Utah and was inaugural director of the Poetry Foundation’s Harriet Monroe Poetry Institute. She is a distinguished professor of English at the University of Utah.