Afoot in a Field of Men - Softcover

Taylor, Ellis

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Softcover

ISBN 10: 0871132036 ISBN 13: 9780871132031

Publisher: Atlantic Monthly Pr, 1988

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Stories set in a Dallas slum deal with a woman trying to keep her unconventional family together despite the social and economic forces that threaten to pull them apart

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"Ripeness is all" in these poems where mangoes, melons, and pomegranates redden and fall into the dry soil of south Texas to be eaten, to rot, or to bury their seeds. Against this lush and fertile backdrop, a clear-eyed gringa elopes on her eighteenth birthday with a Mexican native old enough to be her father, whom she envisions as catching her before she too can hit the dirt and spoil. That backstory is the only part of this collection not set in the sensual present moment, where the juices of burst fruit and kisses and the lyrical Spanish language seep into poems meant to be savored on the reader's tongue. The Garden, Uprooted is a debut collection from a young poet to watch."

Julie Kane, Louisiana Poet Laureate and author of Jazz Funeral and Rhythm and Booze

"With her deft, sensuous, jaunty, and vital poems Katie Hoerth makes a smart debut in The Garden Uprooted. From "How To Marry a Prince" to "Breakfast with Fur" to "Not the Sonnet You Dream Of," the poet mixes fairy tale images with visceral descriptions in this sexy--and crafted--first book that keeps turning preconceptions inside out."

Molly Peacock, author of The Paper Garden and The Second Blush

"Finding a home, putting down roots without suffering "root shock," knowing and accepting who you are, and finding ways to be accepted by others, these are difficult tasks, especially if you are a transplant from Sheboygan living and writing in the Rio Grande Valley. Katherine Hoerth poems show the way, her personal way, and they do it with grace and honesty. She understands what we must all learn--what it means to be human."

Robert S. Nelsen - President of the University of Texas Pan American and author of Orphans, Bums and Angels and Sprits Colliding

About the Author:

Katherine received her MFA from the University of Texas Pan American and teaches writing at South Texas College. Her work has appeared in journals including Borderlands: Texas Poetry Review, Conte: A Journal of Narrative Writing, and Front Porch. Katherine is the Assistant Poetry Editor at Fifth Wednesday Journal, and reviews poetry books for Boxcar. Mouthfeel Press has published two of her chapbooks titled Among the Mariposas (2010) and more recently, The Garden of Dresses (2012). The Garden Uprooted is her first poetry collection. She lives in rural South Texas with her love, Bruno, and their five cats.

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