Whatever Shines: Prose Poems First edition. Edition

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\"\"Whatever Shines\" is an admirable and dazling first collection. The voice is undisputably unique and haunting and one looks forward to anything the poet writes in the future.\" -Jim Harrison\"The writing of Kathleen McGookey shines more brightly than most fine things we feel pleasure to read. Celebrate it!\" -Naomi Shihab Nye \"\"At first, you don\'t turn the antique coin, don\'t feel the chip in the crystal, the dented armor, you just coo in admiration. You simply close your hand around whatever shines...\"\" -from the title poemKathleen McGookey holds a Ph.D. in literature from Western Michigan University. She is managing editor of \"Third Coast\" and was nominated for a Pushcart Prize in 1998. She lives in Kalamazoo, Michigan.Poetry. \"WHATEVER SHINES is an admirable and dazzling first collection. The voice is indisputably unique and haunting, and one looks forward to anything the poet writes in the future\"-Jim Harrison. \"The light that emanates from WHATEVER SHINES is the uncommon light of imagination. Whether writing in verse or in artfully compressed prose poems, Kathleen McGookey exhibits a gift for fresh invention. More impressive yet, (especially for a first book) is that invention for this young poet is never an end in itself but a means by which her carefully modulated language is surprised into sudden, revelatory emotion\"-Stuart Dybek.