Kate Partridge is the author of one previous collection of poetry, Ends of the Earth. Her poems have appeared in FIELD, Yale Review, Pleiades, Michigan Quarterly Review, Alaska Quarterly Review, Copper Nickel, and other journals. A graduate of the MFA program at George Mason University and the PhD at the University of Southern California, she lives in Denver and teaches at Regis University.

“I just finished reading Kate Partridge’s THINE for the second time in a row. Now I’m even more certain that this book is one of the very best, if not the best new book of poems I’ve read in a good long time. Intelligent, understated, and as wryly funny as they are deeply, searchingly serious, Partridge’s poetic meditations evolve, turning again and again, always in unpredictable directions. Launched from observations of the natural world, or as likely, from a skeptic’s close reading of biblical and literary texts, the poet’s inquiries and thought- experiments reveal a generosity of spirit and perspicacity of mind that remind me of Marianne Moore’s quick wit and intellectual ferocity as well as Elizabeth Bishop’s affectionate ironies and dark unrevealed revelations. This is a book full of accuracies and mysteries, I will be returning to it with pleasure and maybe even some gusto.”

• ONEOde on Inheritance •3Theory of Audacity •5Fanfare for the Dinosaurs, or, The Trumpeter •7Easter Observance in which My Wife HasMisplaced Her Glasses Again •9Theory of Engagement •11The Fish •13Self-Portrait as Cain and Abel •15Ars Poetica with Goats and Agnes Martin •17Rubicon •19TWOEve from Above •25California •28A Suitable Host •29Theory of Recitation •31Pause One Coast •33Desert Meeting •34Theory of Paradise •35Old Dominion •37[Willa to Edith] •38[Willa to Edith] •39[Willa to Edith] •40Theory of Communion •41THREESelf-Portrait as Woman with Horns •47Vanitas •48Invitation to an Evening •51Whole Life •53[Willa to Edith] •56[Willa to Edith] •57[Willa to Edith] •58Landscape Beginning with a Line from Marianne Moore •59Taking Off My Eyes •61Watch •63Theory of Sand •65To Autumn •66It’s a Day •68Poem Without Weight •70Strophe & Anti-Strophe •75Notes •77Acknowlegments •79