Kathleen Holliday

Broschiertes Buch

Putting My Ash on the Line

Beschreibung

In this debut chapbook by Pacific Northwest poet, Kathleen Holliday, the reader is introduced to a voice sharpened by experience and imbued with a passion for words. As the title suggests, these twenty-nine well-crafted poems combine word-play and wit, history, myth ("The Wine-Dark Sea") and literature ("Ms. Havisham," "A Great White") to explore such themes as love, loss, family, place, and heritage. She can find the comic in the tragic ("Going For the Jocular"), the tragic in daily life ("Post-Impressionism") and take delight in extending a metaphor ("The Joy of Text"). Despite their brevity, many of the shorter poems ("Thanksgiving," "The Bounty") pack a punch. A member of her writers group describes Kathleen as a poet who writes 'with a literary sophistication combined with a wacky sense of humor.' The majority of the poems gathered here first appeared in print and online journals and one anthology; three of the poems, were poetry contest place winners.

Autor

Kathleen Holliday lives on an island in the Salish Sea. Her poems have appeared in Cathexis Northwest Press, Common Ground Review, Poet Lore, Poetry Super Highway, SHARK REEF Literary Magazine, The Write Launch and other journals. She is a graduate of Augsburg University, Minneapolis, MN. Her chapbooks, Putting My Ash on the Line (2020) and Boatman, Pass By (2023) were published by Finishing Line Press. For more: www.kathleenholliday.comRich with imagery, irony, and word-play, the poems of Kathleen Holliday's third chapbook, A Cage in Search of a Bird range from narrative to brief, all with startling impact. There are poems of family: If My Father Could Ask Why I Have Tattoos and death: Rounded with a Sleep. The natural world appears-though in surprising ways: Native Tongue, A Walk in the Woods; as does eros: The Final Problem, My Near-Death Experience. A long sojourn in Minnesota results in The Fifth Month of Winter. The final poem, Rafting, is a gesture toward connection in these dark times.Several of these poems first appeared in literary journals. Running in the Dark was awarded first prize in Common Ground Review's Poetry Prize 2022, and the title poem was long-listed in the Fish Publishing Poetry Prize 2022, judged by former U.S. poet laureate, Billy Collins.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Finishing Line Press
• Seitenzahl: 46
• Erscheinungstermin: 27. November 2020
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 216mm x 140mm x 3mm
• Gewicht: 72g
• ISBN-13: 9781646623730
• ISBN-10: 1646623738
• Artikelnr.: 60896727