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The Weight of Clouds

$18.00 Original price was: $18.00.$12.00Current price is: $12.00.

by Cathy Cain

Official Release on Aug 16, 2022

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SKU: 978-1-956285-19-2 Categories: Overstock Sale, Poetry Collections

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The Weight of Clouds

by Cathy Cain

maybe…let the clouds be in charge / since they are

The Weight of Clouds is an intimate celebration of how our spirit is surprised and enlarged at the moment of perception, when the weight of reality is balanced by that of our imagination.

Cathy Cain’s words, phrases, and images dissipate, then reemerge like shifting cloud formations. She observes the openings where mystery flows through us like a luminous current. Even as Cain quietly addresses the impermanence of our bodies, she focuses on the amazement, the near impossibility, of our existence and the wonder of love. Her poems are a reflection on how we create the beauty that we need to survive.

ENJOY A VIDEO OF CATHY READING FROM THE BOOK:

Cathy Cain — A Featured Poet on The Poetry Box LIVE (August 2022)



About the Author

Cathy Cain - author photo, color

Poet and artist Cathy Cain is the author of A Shape of Sky (2021) and Bee Dance (2019), both from The Poetry Box; and Empty Space Places You (Finishing Line Press, 2018). Her honors include the Kay Snow Paulann Petersen Award for Poetry; the Edwin Markham Prize for Poetry; and a First Place from the Oregon Poetry Association poetry contest. 

Cain’s poetry has appeared in The Poeming Pigeon, Reed Magazine, Verseweavers, VoiceCatcher, and in  /pãn| dé | mïk/ 2020: An Anthology of Pandemic Poems.

Cain taught in the public schools for over thirty years. She is the lucky wife of a sweet man, and the mother of two fine sons. She lives with her husband near Portland, Oregon.

Early Praise for The Weight of Clouds:

Though heavy with memories, Cathy Cain’s poems are informed by the emissaries of weightlessness, especially angels. She has spent a lot of time looking up. Flight, sky, dreams, and clouds, of course, are all described with her painter’s eye. Dedicated to a sister and their shared families, this book is both a passionate and compassionate experience. As her inquiries and intimacies suggest, she has also spent a lot of time looking in, revealing, as she says “a tenderness about our mortality.”

—Allan Peterson, author of This Luminous, Precarious, and Fragile Acts

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Weight 6 oz
Dimensions 6 × 9 × .4 in
ISBN

978-1-956285-19-2

Pages

106

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Sample Poem

Flight Patterns

scribbles float on the surface of my painting
lines that articulate the sweep of my shoulder and arm
my hand as I dip the toe of my brush in the sky
lines that soar like contrails
lines like the fleeting borders of clouds
like the arcing florets of cauliflower or popped corn
square dance reels or a ballerina’s leap
lines like the chaos of children playing chase
or a cinnamon bun swirled
or perfume
lines like sand dunes or piled trash can lids
or the tops of distant maple trees
like a jump rope looping high from its snap
or hallelujahs
like the freeway cloverleafs of LA
with traffic like marionberry jam
lines like a thought sparking between stutters
like fingernail clippings flying to the sink
or turkey vulture swoops or a fern’s uncurling
lines like a Handel progression
a Willie Nelson waltz
the swipe of tongue against a stamp
the deep pull of an overhand crawl
smoke in a breeze punctuated with ash
lines like a wail in the night
the edgy demarcation between figure and ground
lines like my arms encircling you
round and round

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