Locket

$19.95

by Catherine Daly

With humor and sense, nuisance and nonsense, sensibility and style, the poems in Locket guide us past the recognizable signposts of life: love and loss. Inside Daly’s locket reside, like glittering jewels, a cornucopia of gems borrowed from our contemporary culture. We meet NASA websites, The Chicago Manual of Style, ambulance chasers and submarines, as well as an assortment of coffee table books, the likes of which Daly uses to convince us that, one way or another, we are all making love, or making art. Silly, sophisticated, elegant and offbeat, these poems, reckless and direct and dripping with motor oil, are in love with language, and in love with love.

by Catherine Daly

With humor and sense, nuisance and nonsense, sensibility and style, the poems in Locket guide us past the recognizable signposts of life: love and loss. Inside Daly’s locket reside, like glittering jewels, a cornucopia of gems borrowed from our contemporary culture. We meet NASA websites, The Chicago Manual of Style, ambulance chasers and submarines, as well as an assortment of coffee table books, the likes of which Daly uses to convince us that, one way or another, we are all making love, or making art. Silly, sophisticated, elegant and offbeat, these poems, reckless and direct and dripping with motor oil, are in love with language, and in love with love.

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About the Author

An Illinois Scholar at Trinity College and Merit Fellow at Columbia University, Catherine Daly has worked as a technical architect, officer in a Wall Street investment bank, engineer supporting the space shuttle orbiter, software developer for motion picture studios, and teacher. She lives in Los Angeles, and is also author of another book of poetry, DaDaDa.

Advanced Praise

Bob Grumman of American Book Review offers us pleasing review of Locket steeped in knowledgeable poetic references:

… [H]er poems flow out of the same free-verse, mildly jump-cut conversationalism as Ashbery’s, and those of such poets he’s influenced such as Jorie Graham — with similar touches of surrealism, Stevensian reflectiveness, and sensitively-rendered bright imagery. A kind of high languor, but so full of Jamesian indirectness that the. . . poem, ‘Only This Is Manageable,’ jolted me like the Pacific jolted Keats’s Balboa and all his men.…

“Catherine Daly’s poems are at once captivating and disarming.” —Annie Finch

“This is important (and joyful!) work.” —Janet Holmes

Format: Paperback
ISBN: 978-1-932195-09-5