Poetry. "Kate Colby's BEAUPORT opens windows framing history framing natural and unnatural settings (traffic, waves, skylines, sky). The work presents a series of displacements, smoke and mirror memory experiments, stitching together with anachronism the physical and the metaphysical. This is a fascinating book, composing and collapsing (wing, telescope), foregrounding subject, object and sightlines in between. With its architecture of vignettes, lullabies, hymns and fragments, Colby's BEAUPORT constructs resistances, ever confronting its considered grace and precision in ripples of savory humors"—Norma Cole.

Author City: PROVIDENCE, RI USA

Kate Colby is the author of UNBECOMING BEHAVIOR (2008) and THE RETURN OF THE NATIVE (2011), both from Ugly Duckling Presse. Her first title, FRUITLANDS, was selected by Rosmarie Waldrop for a Norma Farber First Book Award in 2007 and published by Litmus Press. Also from Litmus is BEAUPORT (2010). Chapbooks include Rock of Ages (Anadama Press) and A Banner Year (Belladonna), and recent journal publications include NEW AMERICAN WRITING, VANITAS, NO: A JOURNAL OF THE ARTS, EOAGH and Little Red Leaves. She grew up in Massachusetts, interloped in California, and now lives in Providence, RI, where she works as a teacher and copywriter.

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