Lamplight

<p>Sometimes the weight rises and the telling wells up to be heard. <span style=color: rgba(83 90 98 1); background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1)>These poems tell those stories. </span></p><p></p><p><span style=color: rgba(34 34 34 1); background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1)></span><em style=color: rgba(34 34 34 1); background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1)>Lamplight</em><span style=color: rgba(34 34 34 1); background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1)> is both opening and closing. Like any journey-woman on a quest to understand grief Cathy Cain finds not truth so much as renewal. These poems are like compact inescapable dreams bruised with switchbacks that '</span><em style=color: rgba(34 34 34 1); background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1)>shift / over the edge</em><span style=color: rgba(34 34 34 1); background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1)>' where misery becomes a glow a shine and finally a blaze of love.</span></p><p><strong style=color: rgba(34 34 34 1); background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1)>-David Biespiel author of <em>Republic Café</em></strong></p><p></p><p>Cathy Cain's <em>Lamplight </em>explores what lights the darkest nights and how dark those nights can be. She writes to wear down in poem the pointed pain. We find sparkling songs and savage blues lamplight and dark. Her poems come home to gratitude in a morning walk the smell of forgiveness in clean laundry. She invites the sky in at dawn.</p><p><strong>-Tricia Knoll author of<em> Wild Apples</em> and<em> The Unknown Daughter </em></strong></p><p></p><p><span style=color: rgba(34 34 34 1); background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1)>Cathy Cain's poems move through lamplit rooms and find everything we've left there everything we've hidden. The poems in </span><em style=color: rgba(34 34 34 1); background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1)>Lamplight</em><span style=color: rgba(34 34 34 1); background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1)> bring the world out of silhouette and into the lived-in body. They help us see the treachery and loveliness living within us and show us where to go.</span></p><p><strong style=color: rgba(34 34 34 1); background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1)>-Jules Ohman author of <em>Body Grammar</em></strong></p>