Immortal Materialism

Immortal Materialism - is that a contradiction? Or a paradox? In her new book, Kathrine Yets grapples with such questions as she creates poetry from the choices of how to live in this post-Edenic world where, as the concluding poem asserts, "There is just too much / to go back again." In her vivid images and the music of her well-turned lines, Yets engages with what may be familiar but is too often overlooked. Her poetry helps us to see it in fresh and powerful ways.

- Margaret Rozga, 2019-2020 Wisconsin Poet Laureate, author of Holding My Selves Together: New & Selected Poems and other titles.