Katherine Larson is a poet, essayist, molecular biologist, and field ecologist. Her debut collection of poems, Radial Symmetry, was selected by Louise Glück as winner of the Yale Series of Younger Poets.
From celebrated poet and ecologist Katherine Larson, an elegant collection of lyric essays that embraces fractures, contradictions, and the interconnectedness of life on Earth.
Raising two children, coping with pandemic isolation, and grappling with the magnitude of the current extinction crisis, Katherine Larson finds herself in need of an antidote for despair. This is when Larson encounters kintsugi—the art of repairing broken pottery with gold-dusted lacquer.