Description:
Spectral storytelling that sways restlessly between narrative and lyric registers as it reckons with cumulative grief in the context of climate change and political instability. The poems explore the compounding existential threats of aging, financial insecurity, and rural isolation, but choose music as solace even as they face despair.
Brief description:
Karin Gottshall is the author of two previous award-winning poetry books: Crocus (Fordham University Press) and The River Won't Hold You (Ohio State University Press). She has also published three limitededition chapbooks with Argos Books and Dancing Girl Press. Gottshall's poems have appeared in The Kenyon Review, The Colorado Review, diode, and many other publications. She lives in Vermont and teaches creative writing at Middlebury College.