Covering Rough Ground Author:Kate Braid Winner of the Pat Lowther Award for Poetry, Braid tracks the journey of a woman who wants, innocently enough, to build things. She explores the joy of physical labor and the struggle of being a tradeswoman. "Kate Braid's poems radiate pride in the dexterity of her woman's body, in a crafts(wo)manship that breaches the closed structures of the me... more »n's way of doing and seeing things (the brotherhood). The ground may be rough for a woman carpenter on a male construction site but Kate covers it with a zest for being, an eye for detail, an infallible sense of humor, and, yes, a vision grounded in a woman's place of power. This is important testimony pushing the limits of what it means to be a woman in a man's world." Daphne Marlatt.« less