This Way About

By Katherine Hoover

Hoovers poetry seems to me closely related to her music. We often speak of poetry as musical when in addition to the meaning of the words their sound has its own interest These poems are frequently deeply heartfelt. They are also wonderfully varied.

-Leslie Gerber (music critic, poet, and author of Lies of the Poets)

And so we began a

silent circling vigil

I, moving, pausing

the hawk lifting, gliding

then perching nearby,

a long, liquid dance.

Music,my love,

you spoke to me as a child

watering the desert of my heart;

beckoning with urgency

you took my soul

for your own.

Well, handsome, I guess its

not in the stars but

Ill have

the touch of your suede

vest and the sweep

of your shoulders

to go

I took some leaves

a spider web

flowers, rain

I cut them in pieces

sewed them in strips

and bound them with

ribbons.

Running in the park

electric exhilaration

in a brisk wind

sweatshirts, ruddy cheeks and

brotherhood

with the fast and slow

• Language: English
• Publisher: iUniverse
• Release date: Jun 1, 2015
• ISBN: 9781491760369

Katherine Hoover

Katherine Hoover’s poems cover a wide span of time, forming a counterpoint to her life as a musician.  A graduate of the Eastman School of Music and a faculty member of the Juilliard Preparatory and Manhattan Schools, she has led a gratifying life as both performer and composer, and now reveals her secret addiction to the written word as well.

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THIS WAY ABOUT

Copyright © 2015 Katherine Hoover.

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ISBN: 978-1-4917-6037-6 (sc)

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Library of Congress Control Number: 2015902068

iUniverse rev. date: 05/19/2015

Contents

Foreword

Vaguely Philosophical

Handiwork

Prism

Year’s End

Ardmore Station, February

Valor—’80s Style

The Widow

Strange Tears

Suddenly Spring

Sentinel

Scrub

There Was No Love

The Flowers

Hell and Heaven

The Courage of Success

Nocturne

Upper West Side Pilgrimages

Looking for Love in All the Wrong Places

The Moon

Heddles

In My Dream

Convergence

Dust

Living With Sorrow

Detachment

Poems on the Death of a Loved One

Living with Sorrow

What Have I Done

Solitaire

Weeping Mary

Circles

November Evening

The Waterfall

And You, My Friends …

Emily Sat

A Change of Plans

Long Distance

Valentine

Short Order

Missing Merlin

Suzanne

Portrait: Norman at Twelve

Kathy

Anniversary Song

I Made A Quilt Once

Poetry Class

Some Days Are Like That

Seminar: Day 1

Disorderly Construct

My Quilt

Bach: Prelude in C

Music, My Love

Master Teacher

Studying Syrinx

Acknowledgments

Katherine Hoover Biography

Foreword

K atherine Hoover is best known to us consumers of the arts as a musician, a splendid flutist and a composer who writes works of lasting merit. Now she reveals to us different but related talents as a poet.

High-level artists who practice more than one art form have long been with us. To cite just a few examples, poets William Blake and Vachel Lindsay illustrated their own poetry with fine work. Paul Klee, Ansel Adams, and