| In Search of Warm Breathing Things Contributor(s): Gekker, Katherine (Author), Kaye, Ami (Editor) |
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ISBN: 1941783619 ISBN-13: 9781941783610 Publisher: Glass Lyre Press OUR PRICE: $15.84 Product Type: Paperback Published: August 2019 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Poetry | American - General - Poetry | Women Authors |
| Physical Information: 0.18" H x 5.98" W x 9.02" (0.27 lbs) 76 pages |
| Themes: - Sex & Gender - Feminine |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: "Is anything common?" Katherine Gekker asks in her debut collection, In Search of Warm Breathing Things. The answer, in these richly detailed poems, is no. Gekker is a keen observer, able to "unlock the beauty hidden" in the ordinary. An iridescent grackle becomes a symbol of hope, "collarbones shimmer like wings." Weaving images of the natural world with glimpses of a struggling marriage, Gekker portrays life in all its emotional complexity. "Two bees are fighting or courting-- I can't tell which," she writes in "To Cast a Shadow Again." Yet there are moments of joy, the promise of transformation. "My shift billows, diaphanous.... I can seduce anyone tonight beneath fronds slicing like blades." -- Ellen Bass |