{"product_id":"dressing-in-the-dark-9780899242040","title":"Dressing in The Dark","description":"\u003cp\u003eDRESSING IN THE DARK (Lynx House Press; September 2025) is the fourth poetry\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ecollection by award-winning poet and former Washington State Poet Laureate Kathleen Flenniken.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn this powerful new work, Flenniken confronts the moral and emotional complexities of recovery, \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003edrawing from the speaker's journey through breast cancer. Guided by memories of her mother and\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eher intertwined identities as a mother, daughter, and writer, she navigates the terrain of illness, \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003esurgery, and healing. These poems become greater meditations on fear and mortality, touching on\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ethe quiet struggle to find acceptance amid grief. This is a collection of beautifully structured and voiced poems.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eFlenniken, Kathleen:\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e - Kathleen Flenniken's has lived for many years in Seattle. Her poems have appeared in Poetry, The Iowa Review, Image, and Plume, and many other journals, and in anthologies including Cascadia Field Guide, and Poetry Unbound: 50 Poems to Open Your World. She is the author of three poetry collections: Famous (University of Nebraska Press, 2006), winner of the Prairie Schooner Book Prize in Poetry and named a Notable Book by the American Library Association, Plume (University of Washington Press, 2012), a finalist for the William Carlos Williams Award from the Poetry Society of America and winner of a Washington State Book Award, and Post Romantic (University of Washington Press, 2020), a finalist for the Washington State Book Award. She served as Washington State Poet Laureate from 2012-2014. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Lynx House Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51807157649682,"sku":"9780899242040","price":17.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_e10bde2d-c973-4155-870b-838f7f43313d.jpg?v=1766044319","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/dressing-in-the-dark-9780899242040","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}