Description

Katherine Larson may be the champion of the 2010 Yale Number of Younger Poets Competition. With Radial Balance, she's produced a body of verses that blossom within the liminal spaces that individual medical query from knowledge, smart statement from elegant experience. Larson's creative words direct the audience through vertiginous landscapes—geographical, phenomenological, psychological—while usually leftover clerk for the speaker's own delicate, creaturely home. A skilled research scientist and industry ecologist, Larson dazzles with these advanced and sumptuous verses, hurting with the forces of poetic creativity in addition to the realization of the individual convenience of environmental damage.