{"id":4685,"date":"2023-07-05T21:10:00","date_gmt":"2023-07-05T21:10:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.3mileharborpress.com\/?page_id=4685"},"modified":"2025-09-25T21:03:42","modified_gmt":"2025-09-25T21:03:42","slug":"american-eclipse","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.3mileharborpress.com\/?page_id=4685","title":{"rendered":"AMERICAN ECLIPSE"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

WINNER OF THE THREE MILE HARBOR POETRY PRIZE: PRAISE FOR KATERI KOSEK’S AMERICAN ECLIPSE<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n

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“From celestial eclipses to the phases of a love affair always and inevitably ending in darkness, Kosek\u2019s American Eclipse<\/em> is an occluded landscape where wildlife collides with humanity, the country\u2019s politics is as out of balance as the climate and the ecosystem is losing its rhythms. Amidst the real and metaphorical darkness, the poet seeks the visceral experience of watching the sun consumed: \u201cEveryone,\/apparently, \u2026 packing their bags for the path of totality\u2014\u201d<\/em> Despite, or perhaps because of, this shadowy landscape, the poems stand out for their vibrancy and texture: \u201cthe soft dark flanks of mountains,\u201d \u201cautumn so perfect\/it might go up in flames,\u201d \u201cJuniper berries popping on lush\/ green grass,\u201d and \u201cthe eyes of a bird,\/ retinas pooling with oil.\u201d Kosek\u2019s poems succeed at combining beauty and waste, celebrating the world\u2019s lushness and simultaneously knowing the part we play in its devastation. These poems mark the seasons of nature and out-of-season anomalies. In recording the small, recognizable moments, they act as a center of gravity to an off-kilter existence. American Eclipse<\/em> takes us well past anything as simple as hope; like birdsong in the dark, \u201cThe last white sliver stuck. No one knows what happens next.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u2014Sarah Sousa, author of poetry collections See the Wolf <\/em>and Split the Crow<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

“What is an eclipse?  A strange darkening, an exceptional shadow.  But also a strange light, a moment that startles us into new awareness of larger forces we don\u2019t usually notice in our daily lives, new questionings of what we thought we saw and knew.  \u201cAnd when I looked up, the mountains\u2014jagged, \/ too imposing, I\u2019d thought, to lose\u2014had vanished again,\u201d writes Kateri Kosek.  The poems of American Eclipse<\/em> consider the world thrown into strange light: by politics, pandemic, intimate sorrow, and climate grief. These poems examine the world, \u201chow it looks so harmless, \/ so under control,\u201d slowing to consider trees, bees, and more with a naturalist\u2019s accuracy, detailed and backed by history, ecology, and years of wonderment.  Kosek\u2019s unflinching eye includes the speaker\u2019s own culpability, not asking for forgiveness or approval but, rather, seeking truth\u2019s messier, stranger entanglements.”<\/p>\n\n\n\n

 \u2014Elizabeth Bradfield, author of Toward Antarctica<\/em> and editor of Cascadia Field Guide: Art, Ecology, Poetry<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

“Emily Dickinson characterizes the lives of women as a \u201csoft eclipse.\u201d In this collection of poems, Kateri Kosek offers us a hard eclipse, as framed by the astonishing account of solar darkness by Annie Dillard. Between the two occultations, we have life as it is experienced by someone who is alive to nature and to the nature of our contemporary culture. In Kosek\u2019s American Eclipse<\/em>, we find\u2014unveiled\u2014 work filled with luminous poetry.”<\/p>\n\n\n\n

 \u2014Paul Kane, author of A Passing Bell.<\/em><\/p>                                                                              <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Publication Date: June 2023<\/p>\n\n\n\n

ISBN: 978-0-9983406-85-5<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Pages: 97<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Trade paperback: 7 x10<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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