Polishing the Glass Storm

Katherine Soniat has taught at the University of New Orleans, Hollins University, the University of North Carolina at Asheville, and Virginia Tech, where she was a faculty member for twenty years. Her previous collections include Bright Stranger, The Swing Girl, and A Shared Life, winner of the Iowa Poetry Prize and selected by Mary Oliver for a Virginia Prize in Poetry.

"I am in awe of Katherine Soniat's latest collection. Her poetic energies and talents are many and fierce--mystery, imagination, story, knowledge, music, and wonder."--Dannye Powell "Soniat has the audacity to create a mythic language for the soul's adventure that is utterly unguaranteed, adamantly open to the unknown. . . . Polishing the Glass Storm is a new departure in American poetry, masterful and visionary."--D. Nurkse "Soniat speaks like a mystic in her new collection. She travels a landscape of mythology and memory to explore the mystery of existence in 'thin places' where there is an overlap between the living and the dead."--Alison Pelegrin "The weathered grace of Soniat's Polishing the Glass Storm is full of erudition and lived experience rendered into a personal mythology."--David Lazar