{"product_id":"bed-of-impatiens-poems-9781927409657","title":"Bed of Impatiens: Poems","description":"\u003cp\u003eKatie Hartsock's \u003cem\u003eBed of Impatiens\u003c\/em\u003e is astir in myths and mythmaking in the backdrop of the grit, waters, scenes and atmospheres of the Midwest. While its tributes to Saint Augustine's \u003cem\u003eConfessions\u003c\/em\u003e are by turns meditative and daring, its travelogue of \"Hotels, Motels, and Extended Stays\" is quirky, irreverent and, yes, delightful. In \u003cem\u003eBed of Impatiens\u003c\/em\u003e you can feel \"the bliss\/ and the burning too.\" Little wonder it is a finalist in the 2015 Able Muse Book Award.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003ePRAISE FOR \u003cem\u003eBED OF IMPATIENS\u003c\/em\u003e: \u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eHas American poetry ever produced a fresher, savvier, grittier, more elegant, and drop-dead formally exhilarating sequence than Katie Hartsock's \"Hotels, Motels, and Extended Stays\"? If so, I've yet to see it. Hartsock is as deft (and loving) with the vulgarities of truck stop rent-by-the-hour as with the secret wit of rhyme, or the venerables of Homeric epic: her range and her inventiveness appear to know no limit. And this is just a fraction of what bursts to life in \u003cem\u003eBed of Impatiens.\u003c\/em\u003e I'm dazzled by the sheer bounty of it.-Linda Gregerson\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eLike René Magritte I want to paint \"This is not a first book\" under this first book. It is Lolita all grown up and taking us on a cross-country tour of the motels she stayed in with Humbert. It's St. Augustine as Dennis Rodman, elbowing us out of position underneath God's basket. But it's not a cacophony of surrealism. Ms. Hartsock's classical training-her knowledge and powerful rhythms-is the ground, the spine of this book (pun intended); but the excitement is watching the ancient and the contemporary meet in an explosion of true Form.-James Cummins\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eKatie Hartsock's \u003cem\u003eBed of Impatiens\u003c\/em\u003e characteristic vantage includes landscapes derelict and macabre, like the flooded grave in the first poem, and the endless highways of the US, with their extended-stay motels and the ghosts that inhabit them. Hartsock is a sharp and clever reader of the books of nature and of art, yet writes in nobody's shadow.-Mary Kinzie\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWhat truth to find in a world whose rivers \"we cannot swim in and no\/ cannot drink the water\/ cannot imagine that,\" a land of \"seedless sweetness\" and dank motels that are its monuments to transience? Katie Hartsock's answer in her ambitious first collection, \u003cem\u003eBed of Impatiens, \u003c\/em\u003e is to wander and \"let the weather in,\" to keep recalibrating her position in an ever-shifting poetic landscape.-Lee Sharkey\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eKatie Hartsock is attracted to \"beauty in otherwise unlovely place.\" An often amused and goodhearted spirit sets the tone of some of Hartsock's poems, but the long historical and literary view of this poet also encompasses the tragic. Open to encounter, memory, feeling, avid for them, eloquent about them, these poems.-Reginald Gibbons (from the foreword)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eABOUT THE AUTHOR: \u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eKatie Hartsock was born in Youngstown, Ohio, and has lived in Cincinnati, Ann Arbor, and Chicago. She holds an MFA from the University of Michigan and a PhD in Comparative Literary Studies from Northwestern University. Recipient of the 2015 Page Davidson Clayton Prize for Emerging Poets, she is the author of two poetry chapbooks, \u003cem\u003eHotels, Motels, and Extended Stays\u003c\/em\u003e and \u003cem\u003eVeritas Caput\u003c\/em\u003e. Her poems have appeared in \u003cem\u003eBeloit Poetry Journal, Massachusetts Review, Southwest Review, RHINO, Measure, Michigan Quarterly Review, \u003c\/em\u003eand\u003cem\u003e Midwestern Gothic, \u003c\/em\u003e among other journals, and in the anthology \u003cem\u003eDown to the Dark River: Poems about the Mississippi River \u003c\/em\u003e(Louisiana Literature Press, 2015). She is an assistant professor of English at Oakland University (MI).\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eHartsock, Katie:\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e - Katie Hartsock was born in Youngstown, Ohio, and has lived in Cincinnati, Ann Arbor, and Chicago. She holds an MFA from the University of Michigan and a PhD in Comparative Literary Studies from Northwestern University. Recipient of the 2015 Page Davidson Clayton Prize for Emerging Poets, she is the author of two poetry chapbooks, \u003cem\u003eHotels, Motels, and Extended Stays\u003c\/em\u003e and \u003cem\u003eVeritas Caput\u003c\/em\u003e. Her poems have appeared in \u003cem\u003eBeloit Poetry Journal, Massachusetts Review, Southwest Review, RHINO, Measure, Michigan Quarterly Review, \u003c\/em\u003eand \u003cem\u003eMidwestern Gothic\u003c\/em\u003e, among other journals, and in the anthology \u003cem\u003eDown to the Dark River: Poems about the Mississippi River \u003c\/em\u003e(Louisiana Literature Press, 2015). She is an assistant professor of English at Oakland University (MI).","brand":"Able Muse Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50493220585746,"sku":"9781927409657","price":14.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_99a3a3c5-298c-4afd-9d4b-ef16f8d02804.jpg?v=1730637815","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/bed-of-impatiens-poems-9781927409657","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}