In her second book, "Open Slowly", Kate Light carries on her standard of wise, witty poems on living, loving, and making sense of the two. She takes a pragmatic approach to relationships, attractions, and the bodies that contain them. A classically trained violinist, Light brings an understanding of rhythm and lyricism to her work that resonates in her formal yet accessible poems. Her poems open slowly and bloom on the page as beautiful creations. "Open Slowly": someone may be standing on the other side. Open slowly so you know you're swinging wide of them, and then step through. Kate Light is a violinist with the New York City Opera. Her first book, "The Laws of Falling Bodies", which was published by Story Line Press, won the Nicolas O'Rourke Prize. Her poems have appeared in a number of publications, including "The Paris Review", "The Christian Science Monitor", "Western Humanities Review", "Wisconsin Review", "Hellas", "Sparrow", "Feminist Studies", and "Janus".
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"It's hard to think of a poet so aptly named as Kate Light, except, of course, for Wordsworth. The step of her poems is light, and plenty of that luminous stuff is shed here." - Billy Collins
"Whether in the turning balance of a fine Shakespearean couplet or the swerve of an image past shock to insight, Kate Light's distinctive wit is the heart of this book, and it is a heart that pumps the bracing warmth of true emotion." - Annie Finch
"A sort of Lover's Handbook in-progress, Open Slowly explores the bounds and rebounds of a psyche smoldering with the kinds and unkinds of love - contemporary, edgy, smart, urban and urbane, with all itches, angsts and ecstacies intact; often here Wit is the Trojan Horse within which crouch the troops and tropes of Love (or is it vice versa?) while the poet also discovers how 'The body, without the touch it cannot live/without, lives.'" - William Pitt Root
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Kate Light's poetry has appeared in The Paris Review, Hudson Review, Dark Horse, Washington Post Book World, Feminist Studies, The Formalist, Rattapallax and The Penguin Book of the Sonnet, among other publications. Her first book, The Laws of Falling Bodies, was co-winner of the 1997 Nicholas Roerich Prize from Story Line Press. She has recently completed Oceanophony, a children's book and CD for chamber ensemble and narrator, in collaboration with composer Bruce Adolphe. She is also a professional violinist in New York City. Author photo by Eric Kater.
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