Description:
"Katherine Hoerth's Pandora's Prairie documents the personal angst-filled days of barrenness so many in this world are fighting through. In every sunrise and daily interaction, she finds herself continually battling the dark of depression the Fates put upon us. . . . There is emptiness. There is a longing for something beyond our power to know; the collective heartbrokenness of the human experience."
-karla k. morton, 2010 Texas State Poet Laureate, author of Turbulence & Fluids
Brief description: Katherine Hoerth is the author of several poetry collections, including Flare Stacks in Full Bloom (2022). A member of the Texas Institute of Letters, she is an associate professor of English at Lamar University in Beaumont, Texas.
Review Quotes:
"Hoerth opens herself up in a poignant, deeply personal, honest, and insightful way, reflecting on the delicate balance between nature's simplicity and human life's complexities. This poetry is timeless and rich, and like in her poem, 'Headlights, ' the reader will find, after the many moments artfully examining daily life's dilemmas, that the streets ahead are bathed in gold."
-David M. Parsons, 2011 Texas State Poet Laureate, author of Austin Relativity: Coming of Age in the '60s