Kate Kingston invites us into legendary, multi-hued gardens flooded with Andalusian sun and suffused with the gleam of labyrinthine moons. -- Carolyne Wright

Kate Kingston writes about intimate environments, especially the terrain of Spain and Mexico and the wilderness in the Southwestern U.S., to reveal the complexities, strengths, and resilience of the female spirit. The poems in Shaping the Kaleidoscope resonate with the theme of landscape as integral to the self, how our outer landscapes shape and reveal our inner landscapes.