Description
Author: Katrina Roberts, Winner of the 2019 Floating Bridge Press Chapbook Award
Year: 2019
ISBN: 978-1-930446-51-9
Pages: 48
Lace by Katrina Roberts lives on “an edge too crisp for pain,” where light and shadow play off each other. Both tender in its craft and fierce in its imagery, Lace offers “the clot and bloody smear” of strays and the “gluey” holes of scabs. With a keen eye for the natural world and the domestic realm, Roberts zooms in on life through lush language, sharp observation, and rich lines. Reading Lace is akin to walking through a rainy day only to be stopped in your tracks by the beauty of a web dazzled with raindrops—what may have originally seemed mundane is made magical, poignant, and worthy of our rapt attention and praise. Lace is a visceral book with bones and the “white dress of fog,” one that leaves the reader standing in the rain, soaked through and glad for it.
*Note: If you submitted to the 2019 Floating Bridge Press Chapbook Competition, you will receive copies of both of this year’s books when they are released.
Katrina Roberts has published four books of poems: Underdog; Friendly Fire; The Quick; and How Late Desire Looks; and edited the anthology: Because You Asked: A Book of Answers on the Art & Craft of the Writing Life. Her work appears widely in journals and in anthologies such as Best American Poetry, The Pushcart Prize Anthology, and The Bread Loaf Anthology of New American Poets. Named finalist for the New Alchemy Award, her graphic poems have been nominated for a Pushcart prize, and appear in places such as Thrush Poetry Journal, The Ilanot Review, Permafrost, Poetry Northwest, Root & Star, Lilac City Fairy Tales (Vol. IV) “Towers & Dungeons,” and Evergreen: Fairy Tales, Essays, and Fables from the Dark Northwest (Scablands Books). She writes and makes art in Walla Walla, Washington, where she teaches and curates the Visiting Writers Reading Series at Whitman College, and co-runs the Walla Walla Distilling Company. www.katrinaroberts.net
Read 2 poems from this collection at Pontoon Poetry.
