Dec 09 2008
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Friday, December 12 is the last day to get free shipping on Water Signs, the new chapbook by frequent qarrtsiluni contributor and Water issue editor Katherine Durham Oldmixon. Order from the Finishing Line Press New Releases page (it’s a little more than half-way down on the right). Here are a couple of blurbs from the press release to whet your appetite:
In this exquisite series of interlocking sonnets Katherine Oldmixon acquaints us with a particular grandeur, yes, a freshness, that lies deep down. She is one of those poets who brings clarity to the notion that all things belong together…
—Alan Birkelbach, Texas Poet Laureate 2005
Katherine Durham Oldmixon has written a gorgeous sonnet sequence, a family history and (even more) a chronicle of the natural world. There is struggle in these sonnets, but also, more strongly, “the blue joy that adumbrates life.” Oldmixon returns dusty poetic symbols to their natural wellsprings, givng seasons and their weather back to the world, refreshed.
—Susan M. Schultz
