The Rattling Window

by Catherine Staples

Poetry. "The poems in THE RATTLING WINDOW reveal an imagination caught up in the wondrous ordinariness of simply being, knowing how complicated in fact such simplicity is. Staples manages this magic by the quality of her attention, the articulate, luminous sympathy she brings to whatever her eye takes in. Whether it's a seashore, a field in winter, the 'whiplong honeycomb casing of a snake,' or the astonishing, unforgettable thereness of a horse, it's all illuminated by this poet's 'bright lines of light.' She speaks of 'unearthly singing—just the wind in the ear of a whelk.' Of such singing—bringing the ordinary and the amazing into illuminating alignment—are these poems made."—Eamon Grennan

92 pages, Paperback

First published April 15, 2013

About the author

Catherine Staples is the author of Vert (Mercer University Press, 2024), The Rattling Window (Ashland Poetry Press, 2013), and Never a Note Forfeit, winner of the Keystone Chapbook Prize (Seven Kitchens Press, 2011). Her poems and reviews have appeared in the Academy of American Poets, Kenyon Review, Poetry, The Massachusetts Review, The Southern Review, The Yale Review, and others. Honors include the Guy Owen prize, McGovern Poetry Prize, Walter Dakin Fellowship, and residencies at Tyrone Gutherie Centre in Annaghmakerrig, Ireland. She teaches in the Honors and English programs at Villanova University and serves on the board of the Thoreau Society.