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Lines of Flight - poems by Catherine Chandler: Release Announcement

Dear Eratosphereans:

I'm pleased to announce that Lines of Flight, the acclaimed first full-length collection from Eratospherean, Catherine Chandler has been released by Able Muse Press and is immediately available worldwide through Amazon and most popular distribution and retail channels here (ISBN 978-0-9865338-3-9). Or, just go to Cathy's website, www.catherine-chandler.com, or the Able Muse Press website, www.ablemusepress.com.

Please, join me in congratulating Cathy!

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Lines of Flight - poems by Catherine Chandler
(with a Foreword by Rhina P. Espaillat):
Blurbs from Richard Wilbur, Eric Ormsby and X.J. Kennedy--

Lines of Flight is the first full-length collection from Catherine Chandler, an acclaimed American poet of quiet elegance whose simple style belies the range and depth of her poems. She is equally at ease with poems of nature as with those of people, relationships, landscapes and realms—the domestic, the foreign, even those scanning the vast unknown of space or the esoterica of science. These poems, carefully crafted with formal dexterity in contemporary idiom, are deployed with precision in a showcase of forms such as the villanelle, sapphic, ballad, pantoum, triolet, nonce, and the sonnet—Chandler's specialty, for which she won the Howard Nemerov Sonnet Award.
". . . One of the things that poetry—when it's very good—does better than anything else is to suggest conflicting things at the same time and confront the reader with the possibility that both may be true. This book, which is extraordinarily good, does that to perfection."
– Rhina P. Espaillat (from the Foreword)

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Order your copy now!

Cheers,
...Alex

Congratulations, Cathy!

I just ordered my copy, and I'm really looking forward to a good read.

Best,
Jean

Congratulations, Cathy!

Nemo

Way ahead of y'all. Pre-ordered already; eagerly awaiting book! Congrats, Cathy.

Hey, Maryann - it's not pre-order for Cathy's book. It's the real order, because it's released and available now! (Only Wendy's book is still on pre-order until the May 2 official release date, and that's so to make sure that Poetry's first-publication agreement for one of the poems in her book is not violated.)

Cheers,
...Alex

This is great news, Cathy. Reading your poems online has helped me set high standards for myself, and so I look forward to the more sustained enjoyment I'll get from this collection...!

Terrific news, Cathy. I'm looking forward to reading it.

Terrific news, Cathy - can't wait to read it.

Frank

For the overall look of professionalism, I want to give a small heads up here:

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At the same ti me, she has a subtle eye for landscapes and foreign vistas, from Ushuaia to (even more exotic) Poughkeepsie. As she puts it, "Some things she loves for where they are." Her poems on natural things, particularly those on birds, are alive with the rush of wings. For, though she modestly denies it, she is a poet who can "explicate the texture of the air." Poem after poem offers what she calls "fugitive vignettes" and yet, despite her ironic title, there's nothing fugitive about her verse. These beautiful poems have been made to last.
– Eric Ormsby

It's a small thing, but even small things can add to the big picture.

Having got that off my chest, I'm looking forward to holding a copy of Catherine's poetry. Her offerings on this site have always impressed me. Congrats, madame! :)

Thanks, everyone, for your kind words and support!

Cathy

Thanks, Chiago, for pointing them out. They're type errors introduced by the site HTML coding tools--they've been fixed along with others I ferreted out. And, the book itself is (typographically) error-free!

Cheers,
...Alex

Beautiful, Cathy! Congratulations, and I look forward to reading this.
Best,
Siham

It's arrived, and it's a handsome book. I'm diving in. See you in a day or so.

Ed

Warm congratulations, Cathy. I've just placed my order.

John

Congrats, Cathy, I'm looking forward to it!

I've been treating this book badly. I've been carrying Lines of Flight around with me for the last week or so, as it's a pleasure to keep dipping back into it. I won't list my favorite poems, because there are so many and they keep jockeying for position. Thank you, Cathy -- this is a lovely read.

Ed

Cathy--

Now that I have my copy I must congratulate you again. I had trouble not reading the whole book all at once, each poem such a thought-provoking pleasure that I didn't want to stop. Unlike Ed, I'm going to name a favorite: I keep going back to "Joy Ride," wondering how you knew my childhood (and how it resonates now) so well!

A terrific accomplishment.

Best,
Jean

I would've named 'Joy Ride,' too, with its great last line, except for 'Writ,' 'Caesura,' Fatuity,' 'To the Man on Mansfield Street,' 'When in Lourdes,' 'Matryoshka' and, oh, half a dozen other bits and pieces. Jean has it right, though. A lovely, lovely book!

Ed

Siham, Ed, John, Andrew, Jean, Thanks for your kind words. You know, Jean, a family members also said her favorite is "Joy Ride", but of course she rode her bike down Beaumont hill, too! And Ed, I'll be reading two of the poems you mention at WCU in June ("Matryoshka" and "For the Man on Mansfield Street"). It's so wonderful to hear readers' favorites and their reactions! I'd love to hear from more of you, too!

Thanks so much.

Cathy