{"product_id":"the-daughters-almanac-9781935218388","title":"The Daughter's Almanac","description":"\"With unflinching stanzas threaded through with grief's relentless lyric, \u003ci\u003eThe Daughter's Almanac\u003c\/i\u003e is a masterwork, a deftly crafted illustration of the myriad ways beauty collides with pain. Succinct and utterly memorable, these poems take hold of the heart and tug it toward an insistent light. We are washed alive in that light. We are changed by it.\"--Patricia Smith, 2014 Backwaters Prize Judge\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eWhitcomb, Katharine:\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e - Katharine Whitcomb is the author of three previous collections of poems: \u003cem\u003eSaints of South Dakota and Other Poems\u003c\/em\u003e, \u003cem\u003eHosannas\u003c\/em\u003e, and \u003cem\u003eLamp of Letters\u003c\/em\u003e. She is the co-author, with artist Brian Goeltzenleuchter, of \u003cem\u003eThe Art Courage Program\u003c\/em\u003e. She is the co-editor of \u003cem\u003eA Sense of Place: The Washington State Geospatial Poetry Anthology\u003c\/em\u003e, and the founding co- editor of \u003cem\u003eCascadia Chronicle: A Geospatial Journal of Place, Environment and Imagination\u003c\/em\u003e. Whitcomb was a Stegner Fellow in Poetry at Stanford University, and had fellowships in poetry at the Wisconsin Institute for Creative Writing, and the Fine Arts Work Center in Provincetown. She has published in many journals including \u003cem\u003eThe Paris Review\u003c\/em\u003e, \u003cem\u003ePoetry Northwest\u003c\/em\u003e, and \u003cem\u003eNarrative\u003c\/em\u003e, and in anthologies, including \u003cem\u003eFire On Her Tongue\u003c\/em\u003e, and \u003cem\u003eMaking Poems\u003c\/em\u003e. She teaches at Central Washington University and lives in Ellensburg, Washington.","brand":"Backwaters Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50364258681106,"sku":"9781935218388","price":11.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_afa250f1-1412-42bb-8ddd-8284f87b64a4.jpg?v=1728429798","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/the-daughters-almanac-9781935218388","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}