The Woman with a Cat on Her Shoulder: and Other Riffs (Carnegie Mellon University Press Poetry Series)

Katrovas, Richard

ISBN 10: 0887486835 / ISBN 13: 9780887486838

Published by Carnegie Mellon University Press (edition ), 2022

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: The Woman with a Cat on Her Shoulder: and Other Riffs (Carnegie Mellon University Press Poetry Series)
• Publisher: Carnegie Mellon University Press (edition )
• Publication Date: 2022
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0887486835
• ISBN 13: 9780887486838
• Binding: Paperback
• Condition: Very Good

About this title

Synopsis

A  poetic meditation on the terror of extinction.

The Woman with a Cat on Her Shoulder is a gathering of “punk formalist” lyrics that collectively are a meditation not on mortality so much as on the terror of extinction, how that terror is the reservoir of love. Katrovas declaims from the margins of faith, the cliff edge of doubt, seeking to measure the conductivity of private troubles to public issues. Katrovas’ “riffs” are verse essays jotted in the antechambers of nightmares and erotic dreams.
 

About the Author

Richard Katrovas is the author of seventeen books of prose and verse. He taught for twenty years at the University of New Orleans, and since 2003 at Western Michigan University.