Carpathia

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Her travelling poetrics are striking in the way that she
defies the borders of "narrative" and "lyric"; she combines
the two seamlessly, an enviable gift.--Sacramento News & Review. These
poems move through love and death, sadness and euphoria, and across European
and American landscapes, encountering lovers, strangers, and beloved ghosts.
They arrive, finally, in a place of beauty, mystery, grief, and joy. Poems from
this collection were selected by Marie Howe as winner of the 2006 Tupelo Press
Snowbound Chapbook Award. Cecilia Woloch was named 2004 Georgia Author of the
Year in Poetry for her last collection, "Late" (BOA Editions, Ltd.,
2003). She is founding director of the Summer Poetry Workshop in Idyllwild,
California. She lives in Atlanta, Georgia, and Los Angeles, California, and
travels extensively in Europe. From Devils Lake Journal: "Celia Woloch's
collection Carpathia is about distance, both physical and emotional. Her poems
occupy a lush landscape where the natural world succumbs to loss, where
"fat bees [fall] into the wine" and the ghost swans have "wings
of death." The highlights of this collection are her numerous postcard
poems which feel balanced in their attempts to be both strange and authentic
without becoming burdened with ironic oddity that I've seen so much in recent
poetry. Her postcards move, making leaps with each new sentence, and their
prose-poem form opens these poems up to be more peculiar in a way that's
all-together successful." From The Cosmopolitan Review: "One of the
joys of Cecilia Woloch's poetry is that it so beautifully and skilfully
intermingles humour with emotional intensity, sensuality