Books
A Wild Region: poems & paintings (Moon Tide Press, 2008)
A Wild Region is available from MoonTidePress.com, Amazon.com, Barnes and Noble, Powell's, and select local booksellers.
Praise for Kate Buckley and A Wild Region:
"A ribbon of Appalachia winds through Kate Buckley’s vigorous voice in her debut collection of poems, A Wild Region. It was my pleasure to choose her as the winner of the 2008 James Hearst Poetry Prize for the North American Review, and it is an equal pleasure to welcome this book of poems, crafted from the patterns of speech of the wild region Buckley loves and the wildness of its people, too." — Molly Peacock
"Kate Buckley's poems are dark prayers and lyrical ballads, infused with mystery and awe... And the stories these poems tell--finely crafted as the poems are--are stories that speak to all of us, accessible and clear for all their complicated depth, 'universal' precisely because they're so deeply personal, and so deeply felt. There is so much stunning language in this collection, so much accuracy and grace, and there are so many images that take my breath away... Kate Buckley shows us how the beautiful and the brutal can not only coexist alongside one another, but exist within one another. Hers is a necessary and welcome new voice." — Cecilia Woloch
"A Wild Region is a family history in verse as well as a lovely elegy for Buckley's grandmother set in a Kentucky that is both pastoral and industrial: 'I have ridden on horseback / under the harvest moon, gold and heavy' vs. 'the coughs that stained your linens black / no matter how many times you bleached them.' Interspersed are the poet's own paintings, similarly patterened: pale impressionist shimmers plus brusque expressionist impasto. The elegies are especially moving: 'her wisy hair, fine as floss / cotton against the pale earth of her skull' and 'I cradle her, cradle her, and rock her home.' Pick up this book. (Buckley won this year's Hearst Poetry Prize.) — North American Review
"Painting and poetry are two art forms that stand side by side and work well together. A Wild Region is a collection of oil paintings and poetry from prolific poet Kate Buckley, whose work has appeared in countless venues. Many of her poems are opposite full color art, adding a fresh dimension to her work. A Wild Region is a fine blend of artforms, highly recommended. 'On Hearing Your News': My eyes lie flat in my skull,/darkened, bruised//lashes whip-stitched to swollen lids--/sleep has once again been elusive.//My organs weigh more/than they did the day before,/swollen with unhappiness,/gorged with regret:/tiny fists in my stomach pummeling/ the hanging ball of my heart." — Midwest Book Review (Reviewer's Choice)
A Wild Region is available from MoonTidePress.com, Amazon.com, Barnes and Noble, Powell's, and select local booksellers.
Praise for Kate Buckley and A Wild Region:
"A ribbon of Appalachia winds through Kate Buckley’s vigorous voice in her debut collection of poems, A Wild Region. It was my pleasure to choose her as the winner of the 2008 James Hearst Poetry Prize for the North American Review, and it is an equal pleasure to welcome this book of poems, crafted from the patterns of speech of the wild region Buckley loves and the wildness of its people, too." — Molly Peacock
"Kate Buckley's poems are dark prayers and lyrical ballads, infused with mystery and awe... And the stories these poems tell--finely crafted as the poems are--are stories that speak to all of us, accessible and clear for all their complicated depth, 'universal' precisely because they're so deeply personal, and so deeply felt. There is so much stunning language in this collection, so much accuracy and grace, and there are so many images that take my breath away... Kate Buckley shows us how the beautiful and the brutal can not only coexist alongside one another, but exist within one another. Hers is a necessary and welcome new voice." — Cecilia Woloch
"A Wild Region is a family history in verse as well as a lovely elegy for Buckley's grandmother set in a Kentucky that is both pastoral and industrial: 'I have ridden on horseback / under the harvest moon, gold and heavy' vs. 'the coughs that stained your linens black / no matter how many times you bleached them.' Interspersed are the poet's own paintings, similarly patterened: pale impressionist shimmers plus brusque expressionist impasto. The elegies are especially moving: 'her wisy hair, fine as floss / cotton against the pale earth of her skull' and 'I cradle her, cradle her, and rock her home.' Pick up this book. (Buckley won this year's Hearst Poetry Prize.) — North American Review
"Painting and poetry are two art forms that stand side by side and work well together. A Wild Region is a collection of oil paintings and poetry from prolific poet Kate Buckley, whose work has appeared in countless venues. Many of her poems are opposite full color art, adding a fresh dimension to her work. A Wild Region is a fine blend of artforms, highly recommended. 'On Hearing Your News': My eyes lie flat in my skull,/darkened, bruised//lashes whip-stitched to swollen lids--/sleep has once again been elusive.//My organs weigh more/than they did the day before,/swollen with unhappiness,/gorged with regret:/tiny fists in my stomach pummeling/ the hanging ball of my heart." — Midwest Book Review (Reviewer's Choice)
Follow Me Down, poems
(Tebot Bach, 2009)
Follow Me Down is available from TebotBach.org, Amazon.com, Barnes and Noble, and select local booksellers.
Praise for Kate Buckley and Follow Me Down:
"Vivid, passionate, pulsing with life in the face of loss and pain, these incantations bravely seek to void The Void. They are poems to conjure with." — Charles Harper Webb
"15th century painter Cennini spoke of the art of 'unseen things hidden in the shadow of natural ones.' Like 'a sea turning in on itself' Kate Buckley's poems speak to this, moving together, folding and unfolding the echoes of a voice in place, a voice out of place, 'salt licking salt--/coming home.'Follow Me Down maps out the geography of longing where sometimes 'you walk the yellow fields,' sometimes 'the moon sets itself on fire,' lighting up the distances between the past and the future. Buckley's parenthetical considerations, her ache and intellect coincide in a sensuous, revelatory motioning toward that inspired sanctuary of who we are." — Elena Karina Byrne
"She is making her mark on the landscape of contemporary American poetry." — Molly Peacock
"This is a book where simplicity meets a siren named Kate Buckley and is all the better for it." — Radius
(Tebot Bach, 2009)
Follow Me Down is available from TebotBach.org, Amazon.com, Barnes and Noble, and select local booksellers.
Praise for Kate Buckley and Follow Me Down:
"Vivid, passionate, pulsing with life in the face of loss and pain, these incantations bravely seek to void The Void. They are poems to conjure with." — Charles Harper Webb
"15th century painter Cennini spoke of the art of 'unseen things hidden in the shadow of natural ones.' Like 'a sea turning in on itself' Kate Buckley's poems speak to this, moving together, folding and unfolding the echoes of a voice in place, a voice out of place, 'salt licking salt--/coming home.'Follow Me Down maps out the geography of longing where sometimes 'you walk the yellow fields,' sometimes 'the moon sets itself on fire,' lighting up the distances between the past and the future. Buckley's parenthetical considerations, her ache and intellect coincide in a sensuous, revelatory motioning toward that inspired sanctuary of who we are." — Elena Karina Byrne
"She is making her mark on the landscape of contemporary American poetry." — Molly Peacock
"This is a book where simplicity meets a siren named Kate Buckley and is all the better for it." — Radius
Anthologies
Don't Blame the Ugly Mug: Ten Years of Two Idiots Peddling Poetry
(Tebot Bach, 2011)
Pop Art: An Anthology of Southern California Poetry
(Foreword, Gabriella Miotto: "Kate Buckley on Gabriella Miotta")
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(Moon Tide Press, 2010)
The 2008-09 New Southerner Anthology
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(Swallowtail Press, 2009)
Verseweavers Anthology
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(The Oregon State Poetry Association, 2008)
Tide Pools: An Anthology of Orange County Poetry
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(Moon Tide Press, 2006)
(Tebot Bach, 2011)
Pop Art: An Anthology of Southern California Poetry
(Foreword, Gabriella Miotto: "Kate Buckley on Gabriella Miotta")
Click here to purchase a copy of Pop Art
(Moon Tide Press, 2010)
The 2008-09 New Southerner Anthology
Click here to purchase a copy of New Southerner
(Swallowtail Press, 2009)
Verseweavers Anthology
Click here to purchase a copy of Verseweavers
(The Oregon State Poetry Association, 2008)
Tide Pools: An Anthology of Orange County Poetry
Click here to purchase a copy of Tide Pools
(Moon Tide Press, 2006)