On Wednesday I ordered a copy of Katherine's new book from her publisher. They told me it would take a while as each book is printed to order so I expected a longish wait.
This morning (Saturday) the postie handed me my copy, hot off the presses in the USA and here in my hand three days after I placed the order.
I'm impressed!
But never mind the publisher's efficiency, what about the book itself?
You all should know by now that I am a huge fan of our Katherine's poetry.
If any of you have not yet had the pleasure of reading any, click HERE to see just a tiny example.
I know it's a bit of a cliché but she is the real thing.
My lovely new book now nestles amidst my very favourite poetry books and fully deserves its place there.
I was going to do a little review of it, but I know I'd just get embarrassingly gushy and suck my thesaurus dry of superlatives, so instead, here are a few pictures to give an impression of how beautiful the book is.
I strongly recommend you buy a copy yourself and do your own review.
Katherine lives close to the Manassas Battlefield Park and walks both there and in Bull Run Regional Park, taking beautiful photos which can be seen on her blogs, and gathering inspiration for her poems.
The book is an amalgam of photographs - both period and contemporary - quotations and poems and is as much a meditation on life and the nature of good and evil as it is an historical record.
From the reflective and beautiful to the shattering and heartrending, Katherine's poems affect me deeply and hopefully they will do the same for you.
I shall treasure this book and return to it again and again for inspiration and reassurance.Thank you, Katherine. You totally rule! Your book is all that I expected and more … absolutely wonderful.
Now the rest of you can go buy it from Katherine's store (click here).
5 comments:
I thought no more books were going to be bought, because you were saving to travel.... but can see why you wanted that one.. will look forward to seeing it when I come over..and I will turn the pages very carefully !!
Will go and look at the links later....
Hey, I've already got my Eurostar tickets for Paris (yay)!
And I have drastically reduced my book spending. This one, however, is special.
Thanks for posting the excerpts and for your impressions of the book--it looks great.
Thanks for the links Dive; I can see why you're impressed with this book. Katherine what an amazing looking book of poems and photos! Congrats for getting it published - that's a truly awesome achievement.
Hi, Slamdunk, and welcome!
Your interview with Katherine was wonderful and revealing. Thanks for popping over.
Katie: I've been a fan of Katherine's poems since I first saw one posted and - as I tend to do when bloggers try to write poems - flicked through, prepared to say "meh" and then sat back with my jaw flapping.
She's really that good!
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