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.