Cloud Fire Katherine Hastings Books
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How refreshing to come across a book like Katherine Hastings’ 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, distressed.”
Gillian Conoley
Lovely... it’s your veiled history.
Lawrence Ferlinghetti
For Katherine Hastings, “The mirror is a lake of longing.” Her poems are told us by “a woman with a moon in her chest”; their surprising images embrace close observation, deeply dramatized love and losses, and have the power of crossing boundaries of spirit to reveal truths otherwise unseen.
Daniel Hoffman, U.S. Poet Laureate, 1973-74
Katherine Hastings is a poet whose words embody light; she is the ambassador of luminescence to American poetry today. It is no wonder that clouds catch on fire in this magnificent and transformative collection. In poems like “Whittenberg”, where an atmosphere of light invades and reshapes, “Pushing off from the Wall”, where white cells of water, jewel-lined/undulate amoeba-shapes, and “Twister” clear blue prophecy is proclaimed. In “Bird. Song. Knife. Heart” (No one saw her glide among the lake or river/a radiance wrapped in flame), and “Mother” (“Light transfers from the formless/smatters across the given/world”), and so many others, Hastings truly succeeds in evoking a continent of light on radiant pages ...There is no voice like hers! I wholeheartedly recommend Cloud Fire, poems that will illumine your consciousness both while reading and long, long afterwards.
Lee Slonimsky
Cloud Fire Katherine Hastings Books
The poems in Katherine Hastings collection CLOUD FIRE have an individual voice that is strange and beautiful all at once. These are poems about longing, love and grief. There are many favorites, from the opening poem CLOUDS, "My city whose hair is a cloud fire/ whose dreams are tumbleweeds of mist/whose body is a ladder from barnacles to night star/..." one encounters one startling image after another with surprising use of language. In YELLOW DRESS, John Wayne bursts onto the scene to rescue a woman who has her own power. It is memorable and leaves the reader to ponder its implication. Katherine Hastings knows how to dazzle, dance, prod and move the reader. If you enjoy good poems that matter, CLOUD FIRE is a book you should purchase.Product details
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Cloud Fire Katherine Hastings Books Reviews
This is a beautiful book, one that is worth reading and rereading. From the first exquisite words ("We begin by christening them") from the first lovely poem ("Clouds"), the reader knows that she is in a world that celebrates the glorious connection between nature and ourselves. Hastings is a poet who appreciates the tenuousness of life, and knows how to convey its preciousness. Sometimes Hastings' poems are formal, sometimes they are free, sometimes they are a mix, but they are always exquisitely and humanely crafted.
The poems in Katherine Hastings collection CLOUD FIRE have an individual voice that is strange and beautiful all at once. These are poems about longing, love and grief. There are many favorites, from the opening poem CLOUDS, "My city whose hair is a cloud fire/ whose dreams are tumbleweeds of mist/whose body is a ladder from barnacles to night star/..." one encounters one startling image after another with surprising use of language. In YELLOW DRESS, John Wayne bursts onto the scene to rescue a woman who has her own power. It is memorable and leaves the reader to ponder its implication. Katherine Hastings knows how to dazzle, dance, prod and move the reader. If you enjoy good poems that matter, CLOUD FIRE is a book you should purchase.
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