Time and Chance

By Katharine Coles

" W]itness the sharp, wry play of a dazzling mind."--COLE SWENSEN, author of And And And

Majestic, playful, brainy, heart-wrenching, Katharine Coles's tenth collection of poems at once celebrates and elegizes: her teachers and parents--both dead at ninety--who still issue advice (some good, some not) from beyond the grave; the creatures who pass through her canyon quarter-acre; the moon as it rises and sets; even her Levi's shrink-to-fits, when she realizes she'll never wear out another pair. The poems "guide us with their empathy, sometimes yoked with a wry irony, around the physics of interactions." John Kinsella] More than anything, this is a book about presence: haunted by the past yet firmly rooted in the also-haunting now, Coles keeps spinning, finding herself in words, in her body, in time.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 188558668X
• ISBN13: 9781885586681
• Release Date: April 2025
• Publisher: Turtle Point Press
• Length: 120 Pages
• Weight: 0.45 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 6.0" x 8.9"