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DRIFT AND PULSE was recently published by
Carnegie Mellon University Press.
In
Drift and Pulse, her third book of poems, Kathleen Halme is fascinated with the domain where matter is experienced as mind. Drawing upon brain science, anthropology, and biology, these poems take aim at the big questions of form and death. The persistent “longing for shapes as elegant as instinct,” the rituals and fictions we invent to meet the needs of a ceaselessly revised universe animate the poems. Between “drift and pulse,” the capacity for transcendent experience is expressed as a hard-wired process of human brain architecture.
Kathleen is the author of two previous full-length books of poetry,
Every Substance Clothed, which won both the
University of Georgia Press Contemporary Poetry Series competition and the
Balcones Poetry Prize, and
Equipoise, brought out by
Sarabande Books. An earlier chapbook,
The Everlasting Universe of Things, was selected as winner of the
Harperprints Poetry Chapbook Competition by
Edward Hirsch.
Signed first editions are available directly from this website. If you purchase
Drift and Pulse, add one or both of Kathleen's earlier books at a discount. Shipping is included within the United States.
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