The Stranger I Become - (Joan Books) by Katharine Coles (Paperback)
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<p/><br></br><p><b> About the Book </b></p></br></br>Where does science meet poetry? Where does the street become the canyon in the window? Katharine Coles searches out the links between the poetry, people, and places she love, and her past.<p/><br></br><p><b> Book Synopsis </b></p></br></br><p><strong>Coles is a true original. ―Tom Sleigh</strong></p> <p><em>The Stranger I Become</em> probes the permeable boundary between inner life and outer, thought and action, science and experience. Poet Katharine Coles begins her lyric essays with a meditation on "the urge to move beyond, to understand myself as a stranger, <em>estranged</em>." The essays travel, always on foot, from Coles's home with its kept and wild birds, into the canyon her home overlooks, itself populated with creatures ranging from voles to owls, moose, bobcats, and coyotes. From there, always looking, always walking, in the company of the words that move her, they traverse her neighborhood and distant places in this country and the world. All along, they consider the poetry that inhabits her: the winged creatures of Dickinson, Ashbery's "reflections," Keats's "irritable reaching," Anne Carson's ever-unreachable apples, and more. Taken together, they make up what Lance Olsen calls "a poetics of the vivid."</p><p/><br></br><p><b> Review Quotes </b></p></br></br><br><p>"Readers who appreciate a good ramble of the mind ... will feel illuminated by Coles' (<em>Look Both Ways</em>, 2018) cascading rhythms and insights." <strong>--<em>Booklist</em></strong></p> <p>Walking as peripatetic philosophy--that's what these essays enact, wandering in bright, exquisite, perspicacious ways among our myriad blindnesses and insights, through our dissolutions of mind and body, life and the other thing, inviting us all the while to unsteady and strange ourselves into a poetics of the vivid.<strong> <br /></strong><strong>--Lance Olsen, author of <em>My Red Heaven</em></strong></p> <p>"This marvelous collection of essays zigzags between close readings of poems by Emily Dickinson, Jorie Graham, and John Ashbery, and reflections on curious phenomena observed and described by scientists in a host of different fields. 'Now I find no choice but to relax into the strangeness of voices, ' Coles writes, 'and to enter, through them, a kind of bliss.' Inspiring and exhilarating, <em> The Stranger I Become </em>is a hymn to the possibilities of such bliss."<strong><br /></strong><strong>--Christopher Merrill, author of <em>Self-Portrait with Dogwood</em></strong></p> <p>"Poet Katharine Coles's passion for travel and looking, her relentless physical and intellectual energy, bear the soul of this sensuous and thought-provoking collection. Joyfully weaving together science, philosophy, art, and poetry, Coles takes us on an intimate journey through her mind's eye, an active yet unseen reliquary, both sacred and familiar."<br /><strong>--Kathy Fagan, author of <em>Sycamore</em></strong></p><br><p/><br></br><p><b> About the Author </b></p></br></br><p><strong>Katharine Coles</strong> is the author of two novels, seven collections of poems, and the memoir <em>Look Both Ways</em>. The recipient of grants from the NEA, the NEH, and the Guggenheim Foundation, she has served as Poet Laureate of Utah and was inaugural director of the Poetry Foundation's Harriet Monroe Poetry Institute. She is a distinguished professor of English at the University of Utah.</p>
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