Drawing together poems from six award-winning collections, Kathryn Kirkpatrick
introduces the best of her poetry with the voice of the Fisher Queen,
the otherworldly spouse of the mythic Fisher King. Hers is a story of
wounding, equal to her husband?s, and just as connected to a wasteland,
figured here as 20th and 21st century environmental devastation. These
poems explore the multiple exiles of living in a woman?s body;
traversing boundaries of region, nation, and class; and confronting
human violations of the natural world. Moving between the quotidian and
the mythic, Kirkpatrick?s multi-voiced lyrics constitute a powerful
quest.