A Piece of Good News: Poems

A rich and challenging new collection from the young award-winning poet

In those days I began to see light under every
bushel basket, light nearly splitting
the sides of the bushel basket. Light came
through the rafters of the dairy where the grackles
congregated like well-taxed citizens
untransfigured even by hope. Understand I was the one

underneath the basket. I was certain I had nothing to say.

When I grew restless in the interior,

the exterior gave.

Dense, rich, and challenging, Katie Pete...