The Grain Beneath the Gloss by Katherine Edgren

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In The Grain Beneath the Gloss, Katherine Edgren takes the reader on an intimate trek of secrets and honesties hidden beyond and beneath the “facts.” This trek leads us to unanticipated truths about ourselves and our world that are laced with pain and beauty. Mixing storytelling with the sophistication and grace of a teacher, Edgren invites us to “unfocus and see.” Upon completion of this poetry collection, you will not be able to see the State of Michigan, trees, church, or Mother’s Day the same way. Her poetry “lured [me] like a famished fish” to stop and receive the lesson gifted in each poem.

–Leslie McGraw, Social Media Specialist and Poet, author of Emergencies of the Heart (2015)

 

Poems in The Grain Beneath the Gloss reveal subtleties and pattern in natural surroundings, sharply observed and cherished. They convey uncanny appreciation for meaningful daily experience—particularly the charms of northern Michigan, ranging from “the Humongous Fungus” to a woman’s consummate fishing poem, “Reverie on the Invisible Twitch.”

–Edward Morin, Translator and Poet, author of Housing for Wrens (2016)

 

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The Grain Beneath the Gloss

by Katherine Edgren

$19.99, Full-length, paper

Katherine (Kathy) Edgren grew up in Grand Rapids, Michigan and was first published at the age of seventeen under her maiden name: Kathy Kool. In 2004, she was awarded first place for the Writer’s Digest non-rhyming poetry contest, and appeared in The Year’s Best Writing in 2005. Her poems have been published in the Christian Science Monitor, the Birmingham Poetry Review, Barbaric Yawp, Main Channel Voices, Oracle, Bear Creek Haiku, the Coe Review, and the Evening Street Review. They also appear in Writers Reading at Sweetwaters, An Anthology, 2007, and the Poetry Society of Michigan Anthology 2016. While Katherine is now retired, in her work life she served as a City Councilmember in Ann Arbor, Michigan, raised money for the ACLU, was a project manager on research and intervention projects in Detroit addressing asthma and air quality, and managed a department at University Health Service, the University of Michigan. Her two chapbooks were published by Finishing Line Press: “Transports,” and “Long Division.” In addition to writing, she loves to bike, garden, hike, swim, sing, and walk her dog. She lives in Dexter with her husband, and has two grown children and two grandchildren.

 

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