Poetry. "If there's such a thing as fierce Buddhism, Katherine
Hastings' NIGHTHAWKS finds it. Here is nature in minutely observed,
embroidered detail, juxtaposed with terse and stark observations
keyed from Rexroth's 'holiness of the real.' Hastings is unafraid:
she writes fearlessly of subjects such as the slaughter of children
at an elementary school in Connecticut, the death of a young black
man in a subway station, and opens a brave and unblinking lens on a
lover's cancer. In backdrop, though, always: the steadiness of
nature flourishing, brilliant colors amid the unanswered
questions."--Gerald Fleming "Rooted in what Hastings calls the
'momentary forever, ' these marvelous poems, so rich with detail
and so full of duende, explore the paradoxes of transience. Yes,
the poet reminds us: 'The alarm is set and ticking' for each least
thing in the living world: 'A boy made in the image of Lorca;
turkey vultures... with wings like shredded violins.' Still, the
'eyes of the world' (eyes of the poet ) 'are always hungry...'; so
the poet must read every 'tune placed in her] beak // where the
lust of one tear holds / every note of joy, of sorrow / trembling
under the stars.' And these new poems do insist on inhabiting hard
realities--a beloved's cancer diagnosis; the public murder of an
innocent young man by a police officer--but also, in 'Perseid From
a Park Bench, ' two lovers wish on a meteor falling through the
night sky, and Hastings reminds us: 'We humans do this, place hope
on a ball of dust passing through a comet's tail.'"--Susan
Kelly-DeWitt "These poems capture a double exposure where earth and
sky meld to map what is close and what is seemingly out of reach.
Hastings' horizon shifts from the reality of earth bound oceans to
the celestial ocean where we swim in a sea of stars. Like ancient
astronomers, she sees connections often missed by the casual eye.
She becomes in effect a soothsayer of stars and taps into the music
of their stillness as they witness the coincidental paths we take
in our lives, the stars above us 'an angel apiece/burning so far
out of reach.'"--Colleen McElroy
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