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Feather & Bone – NWVS #165
by Kathleen Williamson
$15.99, paper
979-8-88838-041-3
2022
Feather & Bone by Kathleen Williamson is, on its face, a keen observation of the wildness of nature all around us, but below the surface it teems with the wildness in us, the churning emotions of human relationships – fear, horror, confusion, as well as tenderness and devotion. Many of the poems are set in small pockets of wilderness in New York City, where to find a tree brimming with ibis, you must trudge through broken glass, and warbler calls are drowned out by the sound of sirens. Williamson wrestles with the darkness, but continues to venture into it – listening for predators while letting mosquitos sing in her ears. In the end, she revels being within the thumping heart of it all, and finds the wonder that is necessary to endure.
Kathleen Williamson won the runner-up prize in the SLAB poetry contest and was a winner in the Poetry in the Pavement project in Sleepy Hollow, New York. Her work has been published in Poetry International Online Quarterly, Newtown Literary, Ponder Review, as well other literary journals. She is on the board of Saw Mill River Audubon and Films on Purpose and lives in Pleasantville, New York.
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