Fault - by Katharine Coles (Paperback)
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<p/><br></br><p><b> About the Book </b></p></br></br><P>In "Fault," Katharine Coles continues to explore her abiding interest in the intersections of science, culture, and history, but the book is perhaps best described as an extended meditation on love. Ranging across time and continents, Coles addresses such figures as Newton, Kepler, and Vesalius, not only with intellectual rigor but also with a humor, intimacy, and buoyant optimism that render her subjects the figures and the science accessible within the capacious intellectual, emotional, and physical landscapes of the poems."<p/><br></br><p><b> Book Synopsis </b></p></br></br>In <i>Fault</i>, Katharine Coles continues to explore her abiding interest in the intersections of science, culture, and history, but the book is perhaps best described as an extended meditation on love. Ranging across time and continents, Coles addresses such figures as Newton, Kepler, and Vesalius, not only with intellectual rigor but also with a humor, intimacy, and buoyant optimism that render her subjects--the figures and the science--accessible within the capacious intellectual, emotional, and physical landscapes of the poems.<p/><br></br><p><b> Review Quotes </b></p></br></br><br><p><i>Fault </i>has all the inquisitive intelligence of Katharine Coles' earlier work, the thrill of scientific inquiry, the dazzling profusion of sensory delights. But these poems also soar into song--lament, hymn, jazz riff, ghazal. With the passion of one who knows both suffering and desire, Coles illuminates the miraculous accident of our survival, the mystery of eternity contained by fragile bodies. With fearless grace, she exposes the startling similarity between the tenderness of a lover's gaze and the patient precision of a terrorist touching wires. "Happiness must be simple, and enough." No matter how dangerous the world becomes, Katharine Coles lights every line with wonder, and with love.</p>-Melanie Rae Thon.<br><br><p>Whether she's contemplating the history of cosmology or the stern </p><p>topography of western canyons, the "touched wires" that detonate the bomb </p><p>that destroys a city square or the touched chords of married love, </p><p>Katherine Coles writes with stirring passion and impeccable clarity. Again </p><p>and again, with nimbleness and delicacy, she locates the precise register </p><p>of consciousness, the precise figurative or affective cognate that allows </p><p>us purchase on an abstract realm. Her rejuvenating explorations of </p><p>inherited forms -- pantoums and ghazals, sonnets and quatrains, slant </p><p>rhyme, eye rhyme, end-, embedded-, and metamorphic rhyme -- are </p><p>revelatory: I know of no one writing in America today who uses these </p><p>lovely instruments to richer effect, the auditory argument now countering, </p><p>now corroborating the arguments of heart and mind. This wonderful new </p><p>book is varied, engaging, and terrifically smart: it merits and lavishly </p><p>rewards the most mindful of readings.</p><p>-Linda Gregerson</p><br><p/><br></br><p><b> About the Author </b></p></br></br>Currently director of the Creative Writing Program at the University of Utah, Coles teaches poetry, prose writing, and literature and directs the Utah Symposium in Science and Literature. Recipient of both an Individual Writers Fellowship and a New Forms Project Grant from the National Endowment for the Arts, she has published poetry and prose in such journals as <i>Poetry</i>, <i>The Paris Review</i>, <i>The Kenyon Review</i>, <i>North American Review</i>, and <i>The New Republic</i>. <i>Fault </i>is her fourth collection of poems; she is also the author of two novels, most recently <i>Fire Season</i>.
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