Incense Drifting to the Horizon
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Author: Kathryn Oakley
Description: In Incense Drifting to the Horizon, a collection of new poems, Minnesota writer Kathryn Oakley holds up a perceptive, vivid, and sometimes humorous mirror to the joys and sorrows, beauty and awkwardness of our humanity. The poems are divided among themes of daily living, reflections on stories from the larger world, mixed experiences of love, and a new life centered “up north.”
Blurbs:
“The world is her church. By 'world' I mean something akin to Mary Oliver at a cabin, Billy Collins in Minnesota, and all the people who inhabit these places. By “church” I mean that moment set aside where the heavenly and carnal can circle one another, and even find understanding. One senses the impermanence of it all, but is left with deep gratitude, and joy.”
– Michael Wasylik
“Oakley gives us evocative imagery to lift up the small and large moments of our lives: memory, death, the pain of limitation. In her poems on love—young love, old love, hot love, mother love—you will recognize what is hard to name but true.”
– Elizabeth Wroblewski
“With wit and a smart turn of phrase, Oakley’s poems of family, place, and love lost and found add a fresh voice for those who like their poetry real, heartfelt, and human.”
– Susan Brady
About the Author: Kathryn Oakley earned her BA in English at the University of Minnesota, MA in counseling at San Jose State University, and PhD in higher education leadership at the U. While editor of her high school’s literary magazine and throughout a career in non-profit administration, she wrote reports, proposals, editorials, ads, press releases, résumés, columns, and (hidden in an increasingly thick folder in her middle desk drawer) poetry. She has traveled the state as a lecturer with Minnesota Chautauqua, taught graduate courses in humanities and research methods, chaired the board at Unity Church-Unitarian, and raised two accomplished daughters, who are also the mothers of her three adored grandsons. She lives with her husband in St. Paul.
ISBN: 978-1-68201-067-9
Trim Size: 5.5 x 8.5
Page Count: 86
Publication Date: May 2017
Description: In Incense Drifting to the Horizon, a collection of new poems, Minnesota writer Kathryn Oakley holds up a perceptive, vivid, and sometimes humorous mirror to the joys and sorrows, beauty and awkwardness of our humanity. The poems are divided among themes of daily living, reflections on stories from the larger world, mixed experiences of love, and a new life centered “up north.”
Blurbs:
“The world is her church. By 'world' I mean something akin to Mary Oliver at a cabin, Billy Collins in Minnesota, and all the people who inhabit these places. By “church” I mean that moment set aside where the heavenly and carnal can circle one another, and even find understanding. One senses the impermanence of it all, but is left with deep gratitude, and joy.”
– Michael Wasylik
“Oakley gives us evocative imagery to lift up the small and large moments of our lives: memory, death, the pain of limitation. In her poems on love—young love, old love, hot love, mother love—you will recognize what is hard to name but true.”
– Elizabeth Wroblewski
“With wit and a smart turn of phrase, Oakley’s poems of family, place, and love lost and found add a fresh voice for those who like their poetry real, heartfelt, and human.”
– Susan Brady
About the Author: Kathryn Oakley earned her BA in English at the University of Minnesota, MA in counseling at San Jose State University, and PhD in higher education leadership at the U. While editor of her high school’s literary magazine and throughout a career in non-profit administration, she wrote reports, proposals, editorials, ads, press releases, résumés, columns, and (hidden in an increasingly thick folder in her middle desk drawer) poetry. She has traveled the state as a lecturer with Minnesota Chautauqua, taught graduate courses in humanities and research methods, chaired the board at Unity Church-Unitarian, and raised two accomplished daughters, who are also the mothers of her three adored grandsons. She lives with her husband in St. Paul.
ISBN: 978-1-68201-067-9
Trim Size: 5.5 x 8.5
Page Count: 86
Publication Date: May 2017
