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NATIONAL BESTSELLER “Kate Baer's poems are so full of life—life as it is now, that I can hear them breathing. I loved this book.”—Emma Straub "How About Now is a balm, a banister, and a battering ram. Her very best yet."—Catherine Newman The third full length poetry collection from the...

After a wild night-oot up at Kirk Alloway, Tam O' Shanter has got some explaining to do. How does Kate take the news of his hell-raising ceilidh with the witches? Why is the family cuddie wrapped around a lamppost? Does Tam get his tea, or has he had his chips? Read and recited at Burns Suppers all over the world, Kate o Shanter's Tale is a classic of modern Scots poetry.

c a r v e d, Kate Mapother's first collection of poetry, explores life and loss in its varied dimensions. At once gut-wrenching and hopeful, these poems take the listener by the hand and heart through themes of sexuality, God, love, grief, and family. The writing is rich in imagery and substance, leaving no doubt in the listener's mind about Mapother's ability to plumb the depths of hard emotion, then land you somewhere soft. These poems don't pretend to know. They simply witness.

In these poems of holding and letting go, Mapother isn't afraid to plumb the depths. Just when you think you can't breathe, she breaks the surface, with you in her gentle hands. In her own words, each line is an homage to the scars that form us.