Kate Northrop is the author of Back Through Interruption and Things Are Disappearing Here, a New York Times Book Review Editors' Choice. She teaches at the University of Wyoming.

Other poems by Kate Northrop in Verse Daily:
April 12, 2007:   "Now over the Empty Apartment" " You in the door look back..."
March 26, 2007:   "Dive" "More difficult by night, you must..."
October 2, 2002:  "The Dead" "Their reward is / they become innocent again..."

Books by Kate Northrop:

Other poems on the web by Kate Northrop:
"I love my mother. I clean out her fridge."
Three poems
Nine poems

Kate Northrop's Home Page.

About Clean:

"Northrop's poems recall early photographs where the shutter was left open until the scene had burned itself onto the paper. Her images acquire definition word by carefully weighed word."
—Eric McHenry

"Northrop pares her lines back to the bone, conjuring a dark lyricism that's both unsettling and seductive. Her poems feel haunted, as if wind just rifled through the pages."
—Melanie Drane

"No vexed or fictive entity is beyond Northrop's unique, reconstructive, lyrical intelligence."
—Lisa Russ Spaar