A Red Knock-Knocking like a Heart

“Kate Gaskin’s A Red Knock-Knocking like a Heart depicts a heart breaking and repairing in slow motion, but the most striking thing is the quality of this book’s light—sadness and grief are as bright as the sun, a mass of nuclear fusion shining with excruciating brightness into all the hurt places, filling them with love. An extraordinary collection.” ~Niina Pollari

“Entering this beautiful, heartbreaking book is like walking through a gallery dedicated to preserving the precious artifacts of a world of grievous loss. Though the poems meditate on the darkest realities, light suffuses the blackest corners of grief. These poems are given to us by a suffering yet resilient soul, whose understanding of our flowering world is generous and profound.” ~Sidney Wade

“A Red Knock-Knocking like a Heart is a gorgeous exploration of the complexities of parenting. It’s astonishing how much beauty and pain Gaskin distills into line and form. Through still lifes and landscapes she turns moments of life into ekphrastic art. Breathtaking in their tenderness and honesty, the poems remind us how love breaks and remakes us every season.” ~Traci Brimhall