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Recent ABA president Betsy Burton (The King's English, Salt Lake City) is the godmother of this book, and will support our efforts however she can.The book's innovative blend of existing documents and original writing make it an exemplary text for use in creative nonfiction classes. Its window onto women's and social issues from two generations ago that continue to this day give it relevance to a wide audience.Coles will exploit her many connections with independent bookstores and with media outlets in Utah and the west.

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Since her early poems, Katharine Coles has been known as a poet who isn’t afraid to tackle big subjects that occupy the intersections of art and science, including how we know what is true (if we do). Driven by her insatiable curiosity and relying on a use of form and elision so deft it amounts to sleight-of-hand, Coles brings these big questions into small spaces in her seventh book, Wayward , moving the reader at mind-speed through brief meditations on love, marriage, and family; the permeable boundaries of the self; death; and perception. Though her subjects are deeply serious, Coles’ primary tools for addressing them include her wry wit and agile intelligence, which, taking nothing for granted, she deploys to examine our basic assumptions about the world and our experience within it. As always, Coles here uses technical skill to move her thinking in new directions—many of them at once.

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