Books by Kate Daniels

With A Walk in Victoria's Secret, Kate Daniels crafts a bold, brassy, yet delicate vision of a woman's growth. Imbued with a unique poetic voice that is utterly feminist, these poems possess a fiery intensity for those abuses no woman can ever quite recover from, but also reveal the loving, forgiving temperament of the mother no woman can do without. From the title poem's unapologetic celebration of the breast to a belated apology to the girl who integrated her elementary school, to the awkward juxtaposition of elderly and young women in a gynecologist's office on September 11, 2001, Daniels provides a rich array of meditations on what it means to be a woman in our time. Buoyant and entertaining, singular in style, and exuberant in language, A Walk in Victoria's Secret offers an intimate look at women's experiences.

Poems consider the sickness of children, death, the beauty of nature, poetry, communication, and family life.

From the back cover: "The poems in 'Four Testimonies', Kate Daniels' extraordinary new collection, are set on the threshold of the tragic and the everyday. Whether her subject is man-made or natural catastrophe, the terrors of history or the struggles of private life, Daniels irradiates with hard-won, often unbearable, but always artful clarity the horrible contingencies of human life. This is a beautiful, heart-wrenching book whose beauty is part and parcel of its ferocious power." --Alan Shapiro