In her ninth collection of poems, Ghost Apples, Katharine Coles
interrogates and celebrates her relationship with the natural world and
the various creatures who inhabit it, and in doing so asks what it means
to be sentient and mortal on a fragile planet. From her own pet parrot,
Henri, to the birds her husband attracts to their feeders, to the
wildlife who live just outside--and regularly cross--her property on the
wild edge of Salt Lake City, she uses her capacity for intense
observation and meditation to think her way into other lives and
possible shared futures, both good and bad.