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A trusted seer, fellow traveler, and witness to wonders, Hankla presents the urgency of lives, human and not, at fraught intersections of place and time. What this world is not and what this world can be: Like a diving rod, her powerful poems find the living water, enter and possess you, offering rare moments of irrevocable possibility and spiritual lucidity.","brand":"WoB","offers":[{"title":"GB \/ VERY_GOOD \/ INTERNAL","offer_id":50357143044369,"sku":"GOR013935116","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false},{"title":"US \/ VERY_GOOD \/ SBYB","offer_id":50371075014929,"sku":"CIN0881468320VG","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/0881468320.jpg?v=1751265653"},{"product_id":"lost-places-book-cathryn-hankla-9780881466485","title":"Lost Places","description":"Founded in fieldwork and reflection, Lost Places follows the author from small towns and rural landscapes, through a transitional city neighborhood, to the challenging construction of an urban renewal loft, as she struggles to renovate living spaces and transform relationships after an early divorce. In a voice droll and lyrical by turns, Hankla charts a path through enigmatic encounters with snakes and contemplations of Thomas Jefferson's problematic biography homes, underground and ancient cities, Star Trek, the contradictory nature of Appalachia, desire, our families, spiritual callings, and definitions of home. The title essay offers an extended meditation on “the center place,” Chaco Culture, cradle of pueblo civilization in northwest New Mexico, its talismanic beckoning and interpretative layers.  Embracing the tradition of contemplative labyrinths, one woman wanders her path, pumping toward then away from the heart, revealing her perception of reality as circuitous, continuous, and essentially non-rational and sensory. Hankla invites us to seek deeper understandings and connections with our own inner landscapes and the earth itself. In reading this memoir, we engage with a writer's mind at work on the world and experience how the world works on the writer, as Hankla confronts and traces, with an abundance of faith and curiosity, her own and our collective spirals of consciousness and desire, which repeat and expand through time.","brand":"WoB","offers":[{"title":"US \/ VERY_GOOD \/ SBYB","offer_id":50364132196625,"sku":"CIN0881466484VG","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/0881466484.jpg?v=1751330396"},{"product_id":"galaxies-book-cathryn-hankla-9780881466164","title":"Galaxies","description":"As the opening poem “The Labyrinth Galaxy” suggests, this is not a book of astronomy, but a book of seeking and beseeching.  Cathryn Hankla’s Galaxies forms a collective of connected but disparate things. Each galaxy grouping constitutes a gravitational system of concern, finding its own music and approach to what a poem can be. Together the poems create a spiritual pilgrimage, a sequence sending up an alarm for the earth, inviting the reader to walk a path to the heart’s center.  As attentive to the natural world as to human emotion, Hankla has previously written prose poems and lineated verse in traditional and open forms, but in this inventive volume she allows each poem to follow its own trajectory, map its own metaphorical universe--to reveal the extraordinary range under this poet’s command. Hankla shifts through high and low registers, in a voice droll and urgent by turns, always observant and skillful at her craft.","brand":"WoB","offers":[{"title":"US \/ GOOD \/ SBYB","offer_id":50370973106449,"sku":"CIN0881466166G","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/0881466166.jpg?v=1751265649"},{"product_id":"return-to-a-certain-region-of-consciousness-book-cathryn-hankla-9780881460414","title":"Return to a Certain Region of Consciousness","description":"Cathryn Hankla's Return to a Certain Region of Consciousness gathers recent poems with those culled from eleven previous volumes to reveal a mature poet and her journey through more than four decades of subjects, places, selves, and the challenging art of poetry. From moon shots to pandemic ambiguities, like a color wheel of approaches to poetry's mystery and meaning, this book's prose poems, strict syllabics, metrics, and nonce forms of the poet's making pull into a coherent whole, unified not by consistency but by the poet's perceptive imagination. A painter who began as a photographer and filmmaker, Hankla is at home in long poems or haiku, employing close observation, associative collaging-and spinning stories into talismans. This collection samples projects such as Galaxies and Last Exposures: A Sequence, as well as volumes of prose poems published twenty years apart and the several books between, telescoping backward to Hankla's earliest works, Afterimages, praised by William Stafford, and Phenomena, her prize winning launch from University of Missouri Press. The poet's preoccupations include travels, history, domestic life, childhood, family tragedy, love relationships, art, environmental and personal losses, while the complicated cultural backdrop of Appalachia together with its topography, flora, and fauna forms a through line, a fault line, and a heartline. Hankla remains a steadfast witness and guardian of the region that has shaped her. As Henry Taylor wrote, Hankla's poems drift from a recognizable world \"through something like a beaded curtain\" to evoke \"several of the other worlds that are in this one.\"","brand":"WoB","offers":[{"title":"- \/ - \/ -","offer_id":51388229386513,"sku":"","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true},{"title":"US \/ NEW \/ INGRAM","offer_id":51388229517585,"sku":"NIN9780881460414","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true},{"title":"US \/ GOOD \/ SBYB","offer_id":51602960482577,"sku":"CIN0881460419G","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/0881460419.jpg?v=1751330392"},{"product_id":"negative-history-book-cathryn-hankla-9780807121535","title":"Negative History","description":"Negative history is a legal term referring to decisions that have been overruled or questioned in some way by an appellate court. Cathryn Hankla's Negative History alludes to such ambiguity in the domain of a more personal justice, as the title poem suggests: \"\"Petals of morning\/open in lucid order\/opposed to the law.\/\/Here is a question without an answer.\"\"  Through these enthralling poems, the reader enters spheres of history and emotion in which there are more often ironies to be observed than answers to be found or justice served. And yet what can be discovered through vivid visual detail, through the poet's eye, can lift us from our reliance on the world's determinations and into an appreciation of life's mysteries.  With the issues tackled in Negative History, individual and familial identity, cultural and emotional heritage, Hankla skillfully balances keenest loss with the gains some losses paradoxically make available (\"\"Submerging yourself, you learned\/to search the darkness\"\").  This remarkable collection plumbs the depths of sexual and transcendent love (\"\"Let me die trying to tell you\/one word that might matter\"\") and summons from those murky realms the feral nature of strong emotions and of our own fears (\"\"I have unearthed\/enough emptiness to survive\"\"). In Negative History, Hankla professes the power of love to carry us from \"\"where the press of heat healed the split.","brand":"WoB","offers":[{"title":"US \/ NEW \/ INGRAM","offer_id":52740185686289,"sku":"NIN9780807121535","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/9780807121535.jpg?v=1763481784"},{"product_id":"immortal-stuff-book-cathryn-hankla-9780881468748","title":"Immortal Stuff","description":null,"brand":"WoB","offers":[{"title":"- \/ - \/ INTERNAL","offer_id":52816761684241,"sku":null,"price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true},{"title":"US \/ VERY_GOOD \/ SBYB","offer_id":52816761946385,"sku":"CIN0881468746VG","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/9780881468748.jpg?v=1764270495"}],"url":"https:\/\/www.worldofbooks.com\/collections\/author-books-by-cathryn-hankla.oembed","provider":"World of Books ","version":"1.0","type":"link"}