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Poetry
 "A
ribbon of Appalachia winds through Kate Buckley’s vigorous voice
in her debut collection of poems, A
Wild Region. It was my pleasure to choose her as
the winner of the 2008 James Hearst Poetry Prize for the North
American Review, and it is an equal pleasure to welcome
this book of poems, crafted from the patterns of speech of the
wild region Buckley loves and the wildness of its people, too."
—
Molly Peacock
"Kate Buckley's poems are dark prayers and lyrical
ballads, infused with mystery and awe... And the stories these
poems tell —
finely crafted as the poems are —
are stories that speak to all of us, accessible and clear for
all their complicated depth, 'universal' precisely because they're
so deeply personal, and so deeply felt. There is so much stunning
language in this collection, so much accuracy and grace, and
there are so many images that take my breath away... Kate Buckley
shows us how the beautiful and the brutal can not only coexist
alongside one another, but exist within one another. Hers is
a necessary and welcome new voice."
—
Cecilia Woloch
"True to her Kentucky roots, Kate Buckley is a born
storyteller with a poet’s transforming vision of the world’s
details informed by loss and exile."
— Julie Kuzneski Wrinn for the Betty Gabehart Prize, Kentucky
Women Writers Conference
Kate Buckley,
a 2008 Pushcart Prize & 2008 National Book Award nominee,
recently released her first
book A Wild Region: Poems & Paintings (Moon Tide
Press). A second book, Follow Me Down, is forthcoming
from Tebot Bach. Prizes and awards include: 2007 Joy Bale Boone
Poetry Prize (finalist), 2007
Gabehart Prize for Imaginative Writing for poetry, 2008
Oregon State Poetry Association Contest (3rd place), 2008 Green
River Writers Contest for poetry (2nd place), 2008 Bellingham
Review's The 49th Parallel Award in Poetry (Runner Up),
2008 Joy Bale Boone Poetry Prize (2nd place & finalist),
2008 Atlanta Review's International Poetry Competition
(finalist), and the 2008 North American Review's James
Hearst Poetry Prize, selected by Molly Peacock.
Listen
to Kate read & discuss A Wild Region
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