Discover the exquisite collection of poems in 'Carpathia' by Cecilia Woloch, a profound exploration of love, loss, and the landscapes that shape our emotions. This trade paperback, ISBN 9781934414262, published by BOA Editions in 2009, comes to life through Woloch's remarkable ability to blend narrative and lyric poetry seamlessly. Each poem invites you on a journey across both European and American settings, where poignant encounters with lovers, strangers, and ghosts unfold.

Readers are drawn into lush imagery, traversing through a world filled with beauty, mystery, grief, and joy. Woloch, awarded the Georgia Author of the Year in Poetry, presents her readers with postcard poems that balance the strange and the authentic, capturing the essence of distance, both emotional and physical. With sharp emotional intensity and moments of humor, her work resonates deeply, making each piece a unique and engaging experience.

Embrace the rich tapestry of ‘Carpathia’ and let its eloquent verses speak to your soul. Note: Shipping for this item is free. Please allow up to 6 weeks for delivery. Once your order is placed, it cannot be cancelled.

Note: Shipping for this item is free. Please allow up to 6 weeks for delivery. Once your order is placed, it cannot be cancelled.

Condition: BRAND NEW
ISBN: 9781934414262
Format: Trade paperback (US)
Year: 2009
Publisher: BOA Editions


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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