Poetry. NOTATIONS ON THE VISIBLE WORLD, Kathleen Wakefield's debut collection, won the 1999 Anhinga Prize for Poetry. NOTATIONS ON THE VISIBLE WORLD is a spiritual quest characterized by the continual pull toward abstract faith and the opposite attraction of the real -- and difficult -- world...Wakefield sings alto to the melody of the natural world, finding the 'shadows ornamenting shadows' in our daily ministrations -- Judith Kitchen, 1999 Judge, Anhinga Prize for Poetry. It is a solid collection, placing Kathleen Wakefield in that select group of contemporary poes -- Gerald Stern and Charles Wright among them -- with an intimate handle on nature: even the darkest images are charged with a sense of joy, a soft light to show us how elegant American poetry can be -- Dionisio D. Martinez

Author City: Sherman Oaks, CA USA

Kathleen Wakefield is a lyricist who began her songwriting career at Motown Records. She has worked in film and television with composers that include Academy Award winners Michel Colombier, Vangelis, and Gabriel Yared. Her stories have appeared in such journals as The Alaska Quarterly, Black River Review, The New Press, Salmagundi, Tabula Rasa, and West Branch. She lives in Los Angeles and the Pacific Northwest, where she is working on another novella, and a play in two acts.