The Slow Art
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Bear Star Press selected The Slow Art as winner of the 2018 Dorothy Brunsman Prize and published it in September 2018. The Slow Art is listed as a finalist for the 2019 Washington State Book Award and the 2019 WILLA Literary Award in Poetry. |
Praise for The Slow Art:
"Golden is a gifted poet, and in her debut collection her words feel as certain as someone working on her twelfth book. I could stack row after row of quotes here for you to see, mining the book until it’s empty, but that would do Golden a disservice. The pleasure of The Slow Art is the narrative that it builds, the story of these (mostly) men and the ocean that torments and rewards them. A 400-page novel could not be as immersive as this narrow collection." - Paul Constant, co-founder of The Seattle Review of Books. Read the full review.
"The poems in The Slow Art are boiled down to unflinching essentials. Golden refuses to hide behind the easy fires and maximal adornment of so much contemporary poetry, giving us a rough-edged vision that drifts out into a world of machinery, work, and family. The art here is that the poems drift inward too—to the landscape of the self where time, language, and experience become a tangle of the brutal, the mysterious, the essential, and the celebrated. And I celebrate this book whose heart contains the world and those who work it 'for her, for him, for them, for me, for you.'" - Michael McGriff, author of Early Hour and Dismantling the Hills
"In The Slow Art, Golden faces the elements. Alaskan rain is like a wet mop that 'slops across the sky' and stacked cords of necessary firewood block the view. The poet works 'a job no one wants'—and for this we are all richer. In these poems that confront love and loss in a beautiful yet unforgiving place, the landscape is populated with salmon fishermen, barkeeps, and net menders, all of them seeking connection. A new neighbor's housewarming gift—a pig's heart wrapped in white butcher paper—begs the existential question: 'What can we savor, and what, if anything / should we throw to the dogs?' There is much to savor here, and Golden is a thrillingly honest guide through this demythologized frontier." - Langdon Cook, author of Upstream: Searching for Wild Salmon, from River to Table and The Mushroom Hunters: On the Trail of of an Underground America
"Golden is a gifted poet, and in her debut collection her words feel as certain as someone working on her twelfth book. I could stack row after row of quotes here for you to see, mining the book until it’s empty, but that would do Golden a disservice. The pleasure of The Slow Art is the narrative that it builds, the story of these (mostly) men and the ocean that torments and rewards them. A 400-page novel could not be as immersive as this narrow collection." - Paul Constant, co-founder of The Seattle Review of Books. Read the full review.
"The poems in The Slow Art are boiled down to unflinching essentials. Golden refuses to hide behind the easy fires and maximal adornment of so much contemporary poetry, giving us a rough-edged vision that drifts out into a world of machinery, work, and family. The art here is that the poems drift inward too—to the landscape of the self where time, language, and experience become a tangle of the brutal, the mysterious, the essential, and the celebrated. And I celebrate this book whose heart contains the world and those who work it 'for her, for him, for them, for me, for you.'" - Michael McGriff, author of Early Hour and Dismantling the Hills
"In The Slow Art, Golden faces the elements. Alaskan rain is like a wet mop that 'slops across the sky' and stacked cords of necessary firewood block the view. The poet works 'a job no one wants'—and for this we are all richer. In these poems that confront love and loss in a beautiful yet unforgiving place, the landscape is populated with salmon fishermen, barkeeps, and net menders, all of them seeking connection. A new neighbor's housewarming gift—a pig's heart wrapped in white butcher paper—begs the existential question: 'What can we savor, and what, if anything / should we throw to the dogs?' There is much to savor here, and Golden is a thrillingly honest guide through this demythologized frontier." - Langdon Cook, author of Upstream: Searching for Wild Salmon, from River to Table and The Mushroom Hunters: On the Trail of of an Underground America
Aristotle's Lantern
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Seven Kitchens Press selected Aristotle's Lantern as winner of the 2016 Rane Arroyo Chapbook Prize. |