The Daughter's Almanac

by Katharine Whitcomb

Overview

"With unflinching stanzas threaded through with grief's relentless lyric, The Daughter's Almanac is a masterwork, a deftly-crafted illustration of the myriad ways beauty collides with pain. Succinct and utterly memorable, these poems take hold of the heart and tug it toward an insistent light. We are washed alive in that light. We are changed by it."
-Patricia Smith, 2014 Backwaters Prize Judge

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781935218388
Publisher:	The Backwaters Press
Publication date:	10/15/2015
Series:	The Backwaters Prize in Poetry
Pages:	82
Product dimensions:	5.90(w) x 8.90(h) x 0.40(d)

About the Author

Katharine Whitcomb is the author of three previous collections of poems: Saints of South Dakota and Other Poems, Hosannas, and Lamp of Letters. She is the co-author, with artist Brian Goeltzenleuchter, of The Art Courage Program. She is the co-editor of A Sense of Place: The Washington State Geospatial Poetry Anthology, and the founding co- editor of Cascadia Chronicle: A Geospatial Journal of Place, Environment and Imagination. Whitcomb was a Stegner Fellow in Poetry at Stanford University, and had fellowships in poetry at the Wisconsin Institute for Creative Writing, and the Fine Arts Work Center in Provincetown. She has published in many journals including The Paris Review, Poetry Northwest, and Narrative, and in anthologies, including Fire On Her Tongue, and Making Poems. She teaches at Central Washington University and lives in Ellensburg, Washington.