Comments on: The Catalog of Small Contentments https://thepoetrybox.com/bookstore/small-contentments Sat, 31 May 2025 13:09:46 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.8.5 By: Linda Ferguson https://thepoetrybox.com/bookstore/small-contentments#comment-31229 Wed, 29 Dec 2021 16:42:04 +0000 https://thepoetrybox.com/?post_type=product&p=7431#comment-31229 Carolyn Martin has done it again. In her sixth poetry collection, her words prance, dream and and sing. Through conversations with the sky, musings about Monet, and appreciation for an antic ant that offers critiques of Martin’s writing, we enter a world that’s both imaginative and also entirely relatable. The collection includes heartrending poems such as “Music to Disappear By,” in which her dying father asks her “to record/his melody before it disappears,” as well as the bouncy, life-affirming “Dear Type-A Friend,” where Martin asserts she’s “newly funemployed” and plans “to gadabout” a universe full of infinite possibility. What a gift to gadabout with her through the pages of this delightful book.

Linda Ferguson, author of Of the Forest and Baila Conmigo.

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