Forgotten Ground Regained
Kathleene West
Kathleene West (1947-2013), a Nebraska poet, was emerita Professor of Poetry at New Mexico State University. She published ten poetry collections and two works of fiction: No Warning (Jawbone Press/Blue Heron Press, 1977), The Armadillo on the Rug and Other Tales (The Seal Press, 1977), Land Bound (Copper Canyon Press, 1978), Water Witching (Copper Canyon Press, 1984), Plainswoman (Sandhills Press, 1985), The Farmer’s Daughter (Sandhills Press, 1988), The Death of a Regional Poet (Huraćan Press, 1988), Romance tercermundista/Third-World Romance (Ediciones Catedral, 2000), The Summer of the Sub-Comandate (Intelibooks, 2002), Greatest Hits 1978-2011 (Kattywompus Press, 2012), and Tourists of the Revolution (Stephen F. Austin Press, 2013)
Her alliterative poetry includes Alliterative Accentual Verse, With Love, Prairie Schooner 77.4 (2003), pp. 28-29.