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Kate Baer

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Kate Baer is the 3x New York Times bestselling author of What Kind Of Woman, I Hope This Finds You Well, & And Yet. Her work has also been published in The New Yorker, Literary Hub, Huffington Post and The New York Times.

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Average rating: 4.1 · 40,247 ratings · 5,259 reviews · 5 distinct works • Similar authors

	Upstream: Selected Essays by Mary Oliver, Hala Alyan (Narrator), Joy Sullivan (Goodreads Author) (Narrator) 4.16 avg rating — 25,942 ratings — published 2016 — 9 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	What Kind of Woman: Poems 4.05 avg rating — 20,633 ratings — published 2020 — 12 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	I Hope This Finds You Well: Poems 4.27 avg rating — 9,902 ratings — published 2021 — 13 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	And Yet: Poems 3.94 avg rating — 7,373 ratings — published 2022 — 10 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	How About Now: Poems 4.26 avg rating — 2,301 ratings — published 2025 — 6 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars

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“How the dead must cringe at our resistance to look as if we've lived.”
― Kate Baer, I Hope This Finds You Well: Poems

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“For now just remember how you felt the day you were born: desperate for magic, ready to love.”
― Kate Baer, What Kind of Woman

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“What kind of man does not give up his time, his many pleasures, but hands them over without a sound. What kind of man bends to hold them in their suffering, in their questions, in their garbled turns of phrase. What kind of man admits his failures, turns over his heavy stones, stands at the feet of grief and wanting does not turn away. What kind of man becomes a father. A lasting place. A steady ship inside a tireless storm.”
― Kate Baer, What Kind of Woman: Poems

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