| Books by Leatha Kendrick |
| Books may be ordered from Leatha  LeathaKendrick.com.
She'll send you the book/s with an invoice.  Second Opinion "The poems of Leatha's Second Opinion are tender in many senses: warm in their gathering of memory, painful in their confrontation of mortality. Through sound and feeling, her skillful lyrics enlarge our connectedness." --- David Robert Books. REVIEW 1 |
Science
in Your Own Back Yard The epigraph that Leatha chose for Science in Your Own Back Yard is a quote from Paul Tillich, "The first duty of love is to listen." Leatha not only listens to and relays the language of science, but also the language of the heart, in this book of poems which chronicle her experiences with breast cancer. REVIEW 1 |
Heart
Cake "In her virtuoso debut
volume Heart Cake, Leatha Kendrick mixes the ingredients
of love and death and transforms them into the food of celebration.
Crafted with fierce intelligence and luxurious rhythms, Kendrick's poems
brilliantly plumb the depths of her experiences, then modestly step back
to offer her wisdom. Stormy, honest, and sensuous, these poems left me
craving a second helping of their matter of fact courage and stunning
heart." --- Molly Peacock |
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The writing of Heart Cake and Science in Your Own Back Yard
was supported by grants from the Kentucky Foundation for Women and from
the Kentucky Arts Council. Leatha was awarded an Al Smith Fellowship in
recognition of artistic excellence for professional artists in Kentucky
through the Kentucky
Arts Council, a
state agency in the Commerce Cabinet, supported by state tax dollars and
federal funding from the National Endowment for the Arts, which believes
that a great nation deserves great art. |
Crossing
Troublesome--25 Years of the Appalachian Writers Workshop