When Kathleen Driskell pulled an old edition of Emily Post s Etiquette from the used bookstore shelf and blew dust off the blue linen cover, she instantly found herself and her family within those pages not as the Worldlys, Oldlineages, or the Gildings (archetypes Post created to demonstrate how to properly manage a grand house full of servants), but as the housemaids, cooks, and useful men working for those very rich. The noted poet whose collection Seed Across Snow was twice listed as a national bestseller by the Poetry Foundation explores class, the workplace, and those tense...
When Kathleen Driskell pulled an old edition of Emily Post s Etiquette from the used bookstore shelf and blew dust off the blue linen cover, sh...
When Kathleen Driskell tells her husband that she's gone to visit the neighbors, she means something different than most. The noted poet -- whose last book, Seed across Snow, was twice listed as a national bestseller by the Poetry Foundation -- lives in an old country church just outside Louisville, Kentucky. Next door is an old graveyard that she was told had fallen out of use. In this marvelous new collection, this turns out not to be the case as the poet's fascination with the "neighbors" brings the burial ground back to life.
Driskell frequently strolls the cemetery...
When Kathleen Driskell tells her husband that she's gone to visit the neighbors, she means something different than most. The noted poet -- whose l...
