Description
"[W]itness the sharp, wry play of a dazzling mind."--COLE SWENSEN, author of And And And
Majestic, playful, brainy, heart-wrenching, Katharine Coles's tenth collection of poems at once celebrates and elegizes: her teachers and parents--both dead at ninety--who still issue advice (some good, some not) from beyond the grave; the creatures who pass through her canyon quarter-acre; the moon as it rises and sets; even her Levi's shrink-to-fits, when she realizes she'll never wear out another pair. The poems "guide us with their empathy, sometimes yoked with a wry irony, around the physics of interactions." [John Kinsella] More than anything, this is a book about presence: haunted by the past yet firmly rooted in the also-haunting now, Coles keeps spinning, finding herself in words, in her body, in time.
Author: Katharine Coles
Publisher: Turtle Point Press
Published: 04/22/2025
Pages: 120
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.45lbs
Size: 8.90h x 6.00w x 0.50d
ISBN13: 9781885586681
ISBN10: 188558668X
BISAC Categories:
- Poetry | American | General
- Poetry | Women Authors
- Poetry | Subjects & Themes | Death, Grief, Loss
About the Author
Time and Chance is Katharine Coles's tenth collection of poems. Turtle Point Press also published her collection (Solve for) X, her collection of essays, The Stranger I Become: On Walking, Looking, and Writing, and her memoir, Look Both Ways: A Double Journey Along My Grandmother's Far-flung Path. A Distinguished Professor at the University of Utah, where she teaches courses in creative writing, poetry, and poetics, she has received grants and awards from The Guggenheim Foundation, the US National Science Foundation's Antarctic Artists and Writer Program, the National Endowment for the Arts, and the National Endowment for the Humanities.