Carpathia

Her travelling poetrics are striking in the way that shedefies the borders of "narrative" and "lyric"; she combinesthe two seamlessly, an enviable gift.--Sacramento News & Review. Thesepoems move through love and death, sadness and euphoria, and across Europeanand American landscapes, encountering lovers, strangers, and beloved ghosts.They arrive, finally, in a place of beauty, mystery, grief, and joy. Poems fromthis collection were selected by Marie Howe as winner of the 2006 Tupelo PressSnowbound Chapbook Award. Cecilia Woloch was named 2004 Georgia Author of theYear 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, andtravels extensively in Europe. From Devils Lake Journal: "Celia Woloch'scollection Carpathia is about distance, both physical and emotional. Her poemsoccupy a lush landscape where the natural world succumbs to loss, where"fat bees [fall] into the wine" and the ghost swans have "wingsof death." The highlights of this collection are her numerous postcardpoems which feel balanced in their attempts to be both strange and authenticwithout becoming burdened with ironic oddity that I've seen so much in recentpoetry. Her postcards move, making leaps with each new sentence, and theirprose-poem form opens these poems up to be more peculiar in a way that'sall-together successful." From The Cosmopolitan Review: "One of thejoys of Cecilia Woloch's poetry is that it so beautifully and skilfullyintermingles humour with emotional intensity, sensuality, and existentialprofoundness...Underneath it all, there lies a clear conviction that each of uscould have been somebody else, could have been born and lived somewhere else,and yet "We all dwell in one country, O stranger, the world."