Those moments in childhood that shape who we will become, and all that will come to define our lives, dominate the poems that Catherine Doty has collected in her debut volume. With humor, affection and a sharp awareness of the larger truths that can be found even in the mundane, Doty explores the luminous, sometimes curious relics of memory.
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"Catherine Doty has an uncanny sympathy for childhood and its clinging to whatever feelings keep it afloat... What is remarkable is how truly she is able to locate the emotional throb that vibrates through each setting, each memory, each encounter." (Baron Wormser )
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CATHERINE DOTY is the recipient of the 2003 Marjorie J. Wilson Award, an Academy of American Poets Award, and fellowships from the New Jersey State Council on the Arts and the New York Foundation for the Arts. She was born and raised near Garrett Mountain in Paterson, New Jersey, and has taught thereabouts for many years.
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poetry rife with pathos, humor and song,
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This is a great collection from a poet whose work is not famous enough. Poems from this collection have graced collections like Billy Collins' _180_ series. Catherine Doty has a marvelous handle on the humorous and the meaningful. Whether her poems explore the quirkiness of a neighbor woman obsessed with her son's bowel movements, or the outcome of peer pressure, Doty always finds the quiddities of the matter at hand, its oddity and empathy. And always, she expresses it in the highest quality language--both elegant and immediate.
Bravo.
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