Time and Chance

Praise for Time and Chance

"Time and Chance resonates with an intensity of sculpted lines and precise language. It is such a tactile book, so much so I am reminded of the fineness yet incredible strength of spider's web. Each poem is whittled into a shape that imparts meaning with acuity and specificity. But this is also a conceptual book about points of contact between the physical and spiritual worlds—a book of loss and recovery, of recollection and processing of that loss. The body, in all its vulnerabilities, shapes the book across its sections, and the senses are placed under biological and notional pressure, adjusting to interpret a damaged and changing world. Whether it's an intense closeness to animals, or a re-embodying personal loss through elegy, or sharp philosophical contemplation about language, matter, and the physical world we inhabit, Katharine Coles's poems guide us with their empathy, sometimes yoked with a wry irony, around the physics of interactions." 

—JOHN KINSELLA, author of Aporia

Praise for Katharine Coles

“Katharine Coles is a rarity in her generation or any generation: her understanding that poetry is a quintessentially formal art has allowed her to create her own conventions and explode the usual dichotomies between public and private life. . . . She is a true original.” 
—TOM SLEIGH, author of The King’s Touch 

“Under Katharine Coles’s delicate, mindful scrutiny, reality shivers and relentlessly reinvents itself.” 
—ALICE FULTON, author of Coloratura On A Silence Found In Many Expressive Systems 

“With each line break, we hear something click, and something new falls into place, a perfect fit, but one that upends what’s just been said . . . allowing us to witness the sharp, wry play of a dazzling mind.” 
—COLE SWENSEN, author of And And And