KATE A poem I keep returning to in your book [Path of Totality] is “Urine Season.” It ends with the lines: “Some will say this is not a poem for them. But I say it’s a poem for anyone who ever expected anything.” “Urine Season” is about the loss of your child, and takes place in the hospital. It gutted me with its grief, but what brought actual tears to my eyes was its generosity, bringing the reader into the speaker’s suffering. There is this quality throughout the book, the speaker’s grief spilling out so that it encompasses everything, including the reader. I am not sure this is a question, only that I wanted you to know this before we talk about anything else.
NIINA Thank you for telling me that,…
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The American Poetry Review (Digital) - 1 Issue, May/June 2022