{"title":"Kate Middleton","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eKate Middleton\u003c\/strong\u003e crafts evocative narratives that explore human experience through the lens of \u003cem\u003eArts \u0026amp; Culture\u003c\/em\u003e. Her works, such as \u003cem\u003eFire Season\u003c\/em\u003e and \u003cem\u003ePassage\u003c\/em\u003e, delve into the interplay between memory, identity, and the landscapes we inhabit, often weaving atmospheric and introspective themes.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eReaders can expect prose that combines lyrical sensitivity with thoughtful reflection, inviting an intimate engagement with each story's emotional and cultural textures. Whether examining personal transformation or broader cultural shifts, Middleton’s books offer a rich, contemplative journey.\u003c\/p\u003e","products":[{"product_id":"passage-by-kate-middleton-9781925336436","title":"Passage","description":"\u003cdiv class=\"book-description\"\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003ePassage\u003c\/em\u003e, Kate Middleton's third poetry collection, continues her preoccupation with terrestrial and other landscapes, both real and imagined. The poems haunt, and are haunted by, the legacies of literature and history. Whether inhabiting the scientific laboratory, the exploratory voyage, the layered history of landscape, or the voices of past authors, they are interested in the border-zones of understanding, in both the \"riddle of untrodden land\" and the buried history of lost empires.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eFormally, the poems move between traditional lyric and collage-style forms of quotation and erasure. Others take a speculative turn away from the book's historical grounding, such as in the sequence of poems titled \"Watching Science Fiction\" that are scattered throughout the book.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003ePassage\u003c\/em\u003e traces an imaginative path through orientation and disorientation, where a god in the form of a lion and rabbits with eyes \"fantastically in bloom\" surprise and enchant at every turn. 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These were 'the shows I watched to cry, to feel the hot gash angst of teenaged-ness'.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eIn poems that expand like mini-essays, the poet explores the feelings evoked by these shows, the shame and longing, the regret and desire, and the different kinds of identification they encouraged, especially in a teenage girl. 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