Witch’s Song

Defiant Witches & Deceitful Echoes: Reading Katherine Anne Porter’s Poetry

Defiant Witches & Deceitful Echoes: Reading Katherine Anne Porter’s Poetry

Poetry was never Katherine Anne Porter’s central pursuit: as Darlene Harbour Unrue notes in her introduction to Katherine Anne Porter’s Poetry, Porter was “never a first-rate poet, by her own admission.” But the pieces within are hypnotic—Porter’s distinctive and authoritative speakers conjure vast worlds in small spaces.