Watch Where You Walk: New & Selected Poems - Softcover

Watch Where You Walk is a significant collection of Mary Kratt’s poetry.?Clean-lined, economical, pointed, and soulful, her work strikes to the heart of things immediately, then lingers with musical suggestion. This book of poems pulse with people, their loves and losses, dreams and failures, joys, pleasures, hardscrabble work, all told in compelling narratives. Kratt leads readers down paths and roads that are both scarred and sacred to a fine wholeness in this collection which also has a subtle and robust humor in all the right places.

“Watch Where You Walk is good advice – and the title of a fine book.” — Fred Chappell, NC Poet Laureate 1997-2002

“all-encompassing, ever-reaching and sharp-witted” —Joseph Bathanti, NC?Poet Laureate 2012-2014

“beautifully crafted ...a major book of poems” —Anthony Abbott, If Words Could Save Us

“subtle and robust humor in all the right places...” —Diana Pinckney, Green Daughters