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I am thrilled to announce that this brilliant book,
by Katy E. Ellis, is a finalist for the Washington State Book
Awards in 2026. In our second collaboration together, a detail
of my painting, Quartet at the Pond, is featured on the cover.
This is a writer to keep in your sights. Congratulations, Katy!
Published by Moonpath Press.
https://www.moonpathpress.com/KatyEEllis.htm
Please check your local bookstores, or buy online
from Bookshop.org
Ellis weaves shimmering lines of verse and narrative
into an exquisite prosimetrum (reminiscent of travelogue haibun)
to examine her own journeys: the pilgrim’s search, the outcast’s
blind wanderings…the complicated, shadow-streaked joy of
the prodigal, returned (re-turned) home. These poems cradle grief
and exultation, emptiness and abundance, the keen acuities of
loss…and received grace. This collection - its quietude and
immensity, deftness of language and depths of feeling - is devastating,
stunning, incandescent.
-Sati Mookherjee, author of Eye and Ways of Being.
A detail of my painting, What Appears Two, was commissioned
for the cover of Katy E. Ellis’ beautiful book, Home
Water, Home Land, Published by Tolsun Books, 2022
Autobiographical in reach and structure, Home
Water, Home Land by Katy E. Ellis records and chronicles a coming-of-age,
the creation of marriage and family in conjunction with excommunication,
expatriatism, and recounts Ellis’ experiences during 9/11.
In all these movements—from church, land, and tragedy—it
becomes apparent the collection excavates the realm of the exile
and does so with grace and compassion marking it as an astonishing
book by an exceptional writer.
-Heather Simony MacLeod, The Burden of Snow,
Little Yellow House, Intermission
Practicer
of Poetry and Prose
www.katyeellis.com
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