Whatever Shines (Paperback)

Poetry. "WHATEVER SHINES is an admirable and dazzling first collection. The voice is indisputably unique and haunting, and one looks forward to anything the poet writes in the future"-Jim Harrison. "The light that emanates from WHATEVER SHINES is the uncommon light of imagination. Whether writing in verse or in artfully compressed prose poems, Kathleen McGookey exhibits a gift for fresh invention. More impressive yet, (especially for a first book) is that invention for this young poet is never an end in itself but a means by which her carefully modulated language is surprised into sudden, revelatory emotion"-Stuart Dybek.