Description: THINE explores shifting iterations of the poetic self, both in body and in perspective, within the context of rapidly changing landscapes in the American West.
THINE's observational approach draws together ecopoetics with art and myth, turning a skeptical eye toward predictions of both apocalypse and hope. In conversation with artistic renderings of and against the self in the West-Agnes Martin's grids, Willa Cather's letters, Walter di Maria's The Lightning Field-these poems find beauty in the impermanence of land, animals, and people. THINE meditates, with affectionate irony, on what it means to make new lives in the midst of the unknown.Brief description: Kate Partridge is the author of one previous collection of poetry, Ends of the Earth. Her poems have appeared in FIELD, Yale Review, Pleiades, Michigan Quarterly Review, Alaska Quarterly Review, Copper Nickel, and other journals. A graduate of the MFA program at George Mason University and the PhD at the University of Southern California, she lives in Denver and teaches at Regis University.
Review Quotes: "I just finished reading Kate Partridge's THINE for the second time in a row. Now I'm even more certain that this book is one of the very best, if not the best new book of poems I've read in a good long time. Intelligent, understated, and as wryly funny as they are deeply, searchingly serious, Partridge's poetic meditations evolve, turning again and again, always in unpredictable directions. Launched from observations of the natural world, or as likely, from a skeptic's close reading of biblical and literary texts, the poet's inquiries and thought- experiments reveal a generosity of spirit and perspicacity of mind that remind me of Marianne Moore's quick wit and intellectual ferocity as well as Elizabeth Bishop's affectionate ironies and dark unrevealed revelations. This is a book full of accuracies and mysteries, I will be returning to it with pleasure and maybe even some gusto." -- "Jennifer Atkinson"