Delete Press, paperback
Publication Date: August 1, 2024
Publisher Marketing: Near the end of her stunning debut, Katie Naughton asks a simple question, not so simple at all: "and what is mine?" The question tunes the ear to the undergirding ethic these poems explore, a frequency that cancels the static of capital's all-too-easy "time is money" to reveal the deeper economy, one that knows the real, letter by letter, is embedded within the ethereal, with an E as the only excess, calling out so quietly the heart's inner urgent more. More what? More days, more time, more of the honest inheritance that makes a life—for any of us—mine. Naughton is a spare poet of life's wild abundance, practicing poetry's oldest motions, the garland and the crown, weaving together inner life with worldly experience, stitching day to day, asking what the hours are in hopes of honoring what the days bring. It is the worthiest kind of work I know, to play us the tune of "time our oldest song the wind wilt blow." – Dan Beachy-Quick
