A Piece of Good News
Poems
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A Piece of Good News
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Narrated by:
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Katie Peterson
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By:
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Katie Peterson
About this listen
This program is read by the author.
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 Peterson’s A Piece of Good News explores interior and exterior landscapes, exposure, and shelter. Imbued with a hallucinatory poetic logic where desire, anger, and sorrow supplant intelligence and reason, these poems are powerful meditations of mourning, love, doubt, political citizenship, and happiness. Learned, wise, and witty, Peterson explodes the possibilities of the poetic voice in this remarkable and deeply felt collection.
©2019 Katie Peterson (P)2019 Macmillan Audio