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Praise for Woman Alone on the Mountain
Katherine Smith’s new collection renders portraits of strong women, including a Civil War nurse, often surrounded by lush and beautifully described, trying to recover—out of routine, regret, impending trouble and disorder— “the stillness of the knife” and, for one, her own voice “in a tendril/ of wisteria,/ a silver spider.” Woman Alone on the Mountain is intimate and generous, spacious and vivid, and not to be missed.
—R. T. Smith
In these deeply interior poems, Smith reveals the darker shadows of our lives, shining light on the shadows….
—Jane Satterfield
