Expansive poems connect personal, national, and global histories

In her wide-ranging third book, poet Kathleen Flenniken undertakes the difficult task of re-seeing what is before us. Post Romantic fuses personal memory with national and ecological upheaval, interweaving narratives of family, nuclear history, love of country, and a dangerous age moving too fast. Flenniken takes these challenging moments-bits and pieces of childhood, marriage, cultural touchstones-and holds them up to the light, seeking comfort in a complicated world that is at once heartbreaking, confounding, and dear.

Expansive poems connect personal, national, and global histories

About the Author

Kathleen Flenniken won the Washington State Book Award for her poetry collection Plume. Her first book, Famous, won the Prairie Schooner Book Prize in Poetry and was named a Notable Book by the American Library Association. Flenniken's other awards include a Pushcart Prize and fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts and Artist Trust. She served as Washington State Poet Laureate from 2012 to 2014.

Reviews

"Concerned with nostalgia, masculinity, and the state of America, the 2014 Washington State Poet Laureate's latest collection holds a magnifying glass to the personal and political past to understand how it shapes our present."

* Ampersand Magazine *

"Post Romantic explores and weaves together the politics of country and self... clear, straightforward yet nuanced poems."

* Poetry Northwest *


Awards
Runner-up for Pacific Northwest Book Awards (PNBA) 2021 (United States).



Book Information
ISBN 9780295747798
Author Kathleen Flenniken
Format Hardback
Page Count 104
Imprint University of Washington Press
Publisher University of Washington Press
Weight(grams) 295g