{"id":68106,"date":"2023-05-31T11:48:38","date_gmt":"2023-05-31T17:48:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/artistsofutah.org\/15Bytes\/?p=68106"},"modified":"2025-10-24T07:13:11","modified_gmt":"2025-10-24T14:13:11","slug":"katharine-coles-ghost-apples","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/artistsofutah.org\/15Bytes\/katharine-coles-ghost-apples\/","title":{"rendered":"Katharine Coles’ Ghost Apples"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/a>Ghost Apples<\/em>, the ninth collection of poems by Katharine Coles \u2013 who might be a witch (IMHO) given the ready way she connects with animals (including her parrot Henri, pronounced in the American fashion) and who surely has a magical way with words and their readers \u2014 kept me sitting in a hot car for more than two hours devouring the very-well-composed new work. (Right beside the monster air-conditioning unit that, maddeningly, kept switching on and off. But I kept reading.)<\/h4>\n

The book\u2019s cover art, “Ivory-billed Woodpeckers” by Joseph Bartholomew Kidd, designed by Jessica Perkins, had me absorbed for entirely too long, given the heat. A trio of woodpeckers, two of them perched in a well-pecked tree limb, is spooky and endearing, too.<\/h4>\n

Coles says Ghost Apples<\/em> is a companion to her most recent (Solve for) X<\/em>. “I thought I was culling poems for one book,” she says, “then discovered that I really had two: one that was more about gender (with, naturally, some nature in it); and this one, which is more about nature and climate, with, naturally, some gender stuff in it. Obviously, both are also engaged with the body, especially the aging body – its pleasures and hazards both.”<\/h4>\n

As a companion (I loved (Solve for) X<\/em> as well) or stand alone, this little book is well beyond my expectations. Which is why I will be at The King\u2019s English Bookshop on Wednesday from 6-7 p.m. to hear the poet and Distinguished University of Utah English Professor read aloud from it. Maybe I will get to ask a question. (Better, I shall restrain myself.) Finca will sell food and drink (21 and over, please) and Coles insists her poetry reading as a result, \u201cwill be a party!\u201d<\/h4>\n

As it should be. She can be a lot of fun. And so can the art of poetry, as partygoers will discover for themselves.<\/h4>\n


\nGhost Apples<\/em>
\nKatharine Coles
\nRed Hen Press<\/a>
\n2023
\n$17.95<\/p>\n

The King\u2019s English Bookshop, 1511 S. 1500 East, Wednesday, 6-7 p.m. See the bookshop website for details.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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