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Love’s Press

by Cathy Cain

Love’s Press is a handful of lighthearted love poems about the joys and romance of a long marriage, a playful outpouring of love and affection for a husband. Hopefully, there are many others in the world as lucky as Cathy Cain demonstrates in these poems.

 

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Early Praise:

Love’s Press, by Cathy Cain, is a deeply personal, wonderfully sensual, and infinitely relatable  testament to love— if you’ve been so fortunate to love and be loved for the better part of a lifetime. Cain’s poetry weaves lyrical details of morning twilight sky, constellations and gravity, the “empty space that’s receptive to your touch,” with more down to earth details, such as long johns and beach chairs. “Hold on,” she implores, “as we speed / through night’s dark discordant din.” Hold on, indeed! After reading Love’s Press, you will want to slide down the couch to your love, curling in for a cuddle, or as Cain puts it, “schooning alongside as one.”

—Ann Farley, author of Tell Her Yes

With these twenty-two poems, Cathy Cain creates a song of praise for a long marriage to a beloved husband. In one poem, his presence floods through her as mysteriously yet vividly “as light unseen.” In another she maintains that he gives off “a shy light made more visible” by her “mortal dust.” In yet another, his body is a sun, the very “shape of warmth.” Be it unseen or shy or powerfully bright, the light he brings to her life illuminates each poem. This collection is a tribute to deep and sustaining love.

—Paulann Petersen, Oregon Poet Laureate Emerita

 

About the Author

Poet and artist Cathy Cain is the author of Lamplight, The Weight of Clouds, A Shape of Sky, and Bee Dance, published by The Poetry Box press; and a chapbook, Empty Space Places You, published by Finishing Line Press.

Cain’s honors include the Edwin Markham Prize for Poetry, the Paulann Petersen Award for Poetry from Willamette Writers, a Pushcart nomination, a PEN/Voelcker nomination, and a First Place and other citations from the Oregon Poetry Association. Her poetry has appeared in Reed Magazine, The Poeming Pigeon, Verseweavers, VoiceCatcher, and in /pãn| dé | mïk/ 2020: An Anthology of Pandemic Poems.

The mother of two fine sons, Cain taught in the public schools for over thirty-two years. She lives with her husband near Portland, Oregon.