Dressing in The Dark

<p>DRESSING IN THE DARK (Lynx House Press; September 2025) is the fourth poetry</p><p>collection by award-winning poet and former Washington State Poet Laureate Kathleen Flenniken.</p><p>In this powerful new work Flenniken confronts the moral and emotional complexities of recovery</p><p>drawing from the speaker's journey through breast cancer. Guided by memories of her mother and</p><p>her intertwined identities as a mother daughter and writer she navigates the terrain of illness</p><p></p><p>surgery and healing. These poems become greater meditations on fear and mortality touching on</p><p>the quiet struggle to find acceptance amid grief. This is a collection of beautifully structured and voiced poems.</p>