2006 Donald Justice Poetry Prize Winner - Iris N. Spencer Poetry Awards - WCU Poetry Center

"Kate Light's third collection, Gravity's Dream, represents personal poetry at its best.... That she sounds like no one else has been a given since her first book appeared a decade ago. It is indeed rare that a poet's heart has been worn on her sleeve so lightly as in this gravity-defying volume."

R.S. Gwynn

"Kate Light has been one of my favorite poets for years and years now. To my eye and ear, she operates as a full master, able to somehow communicate in three lines a depth of heartache and clarity that it might take a novelist three hundred pages to convey. Her work give me shivers."

Elizabeth Gilbert, Author of Eat, Pray, Love

Gravity's Dream: New Poems and Sonnets
by Kate Light
June 2006
ISBN: 0-9785997-0-5

doesn't mean just cleared of guilt,

but cleared of influence--to wake in a waft

of light that your own consciousness has spread;

no one else's blood, or brainwave, has been spilt,

and you're following the thread of your own craft,

vibration left on the pillow when you went to bed.

Possessed of your own self, as it were--not forever,

but for one clear day; waking to make choices,

make songs, or muse on the union that will sway

you when you are ready, if you are ever

ready. The question is: how many voices

can you listen to, transcribe, argue with, obey?

You are told you are elusive, evasive,
impossible--and the arguments are so persuasive.