This is Not a Story

2003 Finishing Line Press

ISBN: 978-0974111612 | Paperback | Pages: 88 | $17.95

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From the publisher: Winner of the 2003 New Women's Voices prize in Poetry.

Praise for This is Not a Story

It is said that whenever an animal appears in a poem, the soul of the poet enters. Restlessly flying, walking, and galloping into Katrinka Moore’s sensuous poems of girlhood come horses, crows, a dog, a toad, a dragonfly, a woodpecker, a speckled fawn—each with the shape of that girl's soul. Lithe and muscular as Moore's lyrics are these animals, whose mysterious presences charge her poems with the vibrancy of the known—and the unknowable.

MOLLY PEACOCK

Katrinka Moore leads us under hickories / and a roadside stream that flow[s] / over sunlit rocks flashing through leaves, to a lost, verdant world (it is both hers and ours). . . . Read these poems for the gift they are, the scent and feather brushstroke of peace.

SHARON KRAUS, AUTHOR OF STRANGE LAND

These delicate renderings of an inviting yet hostile Nature and the clear-eyed characters who tentatively but confidently move through it remind us that they live best who respond to humanity’s constant expectation of doom by throwing themselves unflinchingly into the brutal, beautiful materiality of living.

WAYNE BERNINGER, EDITOR OF DOWNTOWN BROOKLYN A JOURNAL OF WRITING