{"product_id":"cats-tongue-poems-paperback","title":"Cat's Tongue: Poems Volume 13 - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eKathleen Winter\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eCat's Tongue\u003c\/i\u003e is the latest publication from California-based writer Kathleen Winter, author of three award-winning poetry collections. Armed with wit, charm, and original imagery, she engages with incidents in her Texas youth that range from traumatic to ecstatic--strewing oilfields, deer, drug dealers, and football games in between. These poems vary widely in style and subject matter, but they share precisely crafted language and this writer's unique perspective on a central Texas childhood. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cb\u003eThe TRP Chapbook Series\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e ... \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003efrom\u003c\/i\u003e \"Each Day a New Round of Sadness\"\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ci\u003eIslands of the Hawaiian archipelago are connected \u003cbr\u003e to each other under the surface of the sea. \u003c\/i\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e Under the surface of the sea something roils \u003cbr\u003e like a volcano preparing to explode. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e To explode sometimes suggests a solution \u003cbr\u003e to the situation of constraint, ubiquitous \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e as fear these days, when stasis is a prize. \u003cbr\u003e A prize, that is, compared to illness. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e Can't wellness sink its teeth deep into me \u003cbr\u003e to feel acutely as a wound? \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e A wound is what the dream delivers \u003cbr\u003e with an image of my mother \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e wreathed in Hawaiian flowers-- \u003cbr\u003e tuberose releasing its cloying \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e daylong ennui.\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003eKATHLEEN WINTER's poetry collections include: \u003ci\u003eTransformer \u003c\/i\u003e(The Word Works 2020); \u003ci\u003eI will not kick my friends\u003c\/i\u003e (Elixir 2018); and \u003ci\u003eNostalgia for the Criminal Past \u003c\/i\u003e(Elixir 2012). She was granted the Texas Institute of Letters' Ralph Johnston Fellowship and Bob Bush Memorial Award, the Elixir Prize, the Antivenom Prize, and Poetry Society of America's The Writer Magazine\/Emily Dickinson Award. Her poems and short fiction appear in \u003ci\u003eThe New Republic, New Statesman, Agni, Cincinnati Review, Colorado Review, Michigan Quarterly Review, Gulf Coast, Five Points\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003ePoetry London\u003c\/i\u003e. She was awarded fellowships at Sewanee Writers' Conference, Dora Maar House and James Merrill House.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 36\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.2 x 7.8 x 5.3 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e April 22, 2022\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Books by splitShops","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":42158250328199,"sku":"9781680032697","price":18.31,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0601\/2623\/2711\/files\/58acfa90316130759039ff9ee1b87223.webp?v=1733257320","url":"https:\/\/booksby.splitshops.com\/products\/cats-tongue-poems-paperback","provider":"Books by splitShops","version":"1.0","type":"link"}