Poetry. "How refreshing to come across a book like Katherine Hastings's marvelous CLOUD FIRE, rich and verdant in formal experiment and range. Mixing lyrics, narratives, curses, blessings, spells, and unabashed love poems, the work is hard-won and honest, generous and rigorous. In poem after poem Katherine Hastings casts her ever-vigilant, observing eye, sharp as it is poignant. Her deepest concern seems our perilous locale and planet: 'My city whose streams are rock doves and parrots / whose bright arm is a spring board for love and suicides' and yet 'we breathe here better than anywhere,...
Poetry. "How refreshing to come across a book like Katherine Hastings's marvelous CLOUD FIRE, rich and verdant in formal experiment and range. Mixing ...
Poetry. "If there's such a thing as fierce Buddhism, Katherine Hastings' NIGHTHAWKS finds it. Here is nature in minutely observed, embroidered detail, juxtaposed with terse and stark observations keyed from Rexroth's 'holiness of the real.' Hastings is unafraid: she writes fearlessly of subjects such as the slaughter of children at an elementary school in Connecticut, the death of a young black man in a subway station, and opens a brave and unblinking lens on a lover's cancer. In backdrop, though, always: the steadiness of nature flourishing, brilliant colors amid the unanswered questions."...
Poetry. "If there's such a thing as fierce Buddhism, Katherine Hastings' NIGHTHAWKS finds it. Here is nature in minutely observed, embroidered detail,...
Katherine Hastings Jennifer K. Sweeney Lee Slonimsky
"These poems cover a remarkable range of subjects, sensibilities, and approaches to poetry. There is a freshness and authenticity of voice everywhere that is inspiring, as if lines were written 'with the flutter of butterfly wings.' 'How do you paint the wind?' a poet asks. In unison, an answer comes from this exceptional collection: poems paint the wind." - Lee Slonimsky
"What pleasure to read these poems from Sonoma County poets both new to the craft and well-accomplished on the path. From the intimacy of the Sunday dinner table to the unforgettable image of a funeral gondola...
"These poems cover a remarkable range of subjects, sensibilities, and approaches to poetry. There is a freshness and authenticity of voice everywh...
Katherine Hastings' poems play with consciousness on many levels. Nature, literature, and human experience catch memorably within the threads of their dense and startling webs. Annie Finch
Shakespeare and Stein Walk into a Baris animated by the two most rewarding and replenishing of poetic forces: dexterous formal diversity and a fierce, unflinching searching. "Where to go from here?" the book begins, lifting us through "the world we've left to ourselves" and singing us at last to the still point where "We, too, dissolve" with "all of it finding its way -...
Katherine Hastings' poems play with consciousness on many levels. Nature, literature, and human experience catch memorably within the threads of t...
Edited with an Introduction by Katherine Hastings Devreaux Baker Ellen Bass Elizabeth Bradfield Janine Canan Maxine Chernoff Susan Cohen Elizabeth J. Coleman Gillian Conoley Lucille Lang Day Sharon Doubiago Susan Kelly-DeWitt Camille T. Dungy Iris Jamahl Dunkle Sandy Eastoak Terry Ehret Annie Finch Molly Fisk Miriam Bird Greenberg Judy Halebsky Elizabeth Herron Brenda Hillman Jane Hirshfield Jodi Hottel Maya Khosla Lynne Knight Danusha Lameris Kathleen Lynch Mary Mackey Colleen...
Edited with an Introduction by Katherine Hastings Devreaux Baker Ellen Bass Elizabeth Bradfield Janine Canan Maxine Chernoff S...
