Description
Poetry. "In my mind, THE SOFT PLACE makes traces around what works to keep us together or keep us going: kindness, stitches ('this inner thing is mine'), seeds, family lines, and the symmetries and asymptotes therein. With intimacy and intelligence, Schapira reminds us of those mirrors (between us and us, us and others or lovers, us and the wound or the world) that sometimes hold together, sometimes shatter: 'Nature doesn't mirror us, but it senses us.' She holds the shards between pictures up to each other in reciprocity, responsiveness; that is to say, she holds it together."—Eleni Sikelianos
Author Bio
Kate Schapira is the author of five books of poetry: HANDBOOK FOR HANDS THAT ALTER AS WE HOLD THEM OUT (Horse Less Press, 2016), THE SOFT PLACE (Horse Less Press, 2012), HOW WE SAVED THE CITY (Stockport Flats, 2012), THE BOUNTY: FOUR ADDRESSES (Noemi Press, 2011), TOWN (Factory School, 2010). Her 11th chapbook, Someone Is Here, appeared in 2015 from Projective Industries. She lives in Providence, RI, where she teaches at Brown University and for Frequency Writers, runs the Publicly Complex Reading Series, and sometimes offers Climate Anxiety Counseling.
Author City: PROVIDENCE, RI USA