Josephine

Every cat deserves a collection of poems written in her honor, but few are fortunate enough to have so eloquent a laureate as Laurence Avery. Josephine's self-described "attendant" chronicles with wit and warmth the details of her life in both indoor and outdoor worlds. Avery sets the tone from the very first line of the opening poem: "She's in the class of things I dote on..." then reveals in the final poem how Josephine acquired her regal name. Patricia Lockwood Davis' beautiful illustrations pair perfectly with the verse to reflect the many sides of Josephine's personality.

Josephine is Avery's second collection of poetry.

Author: Laurence Avery
Publisher: New Atlantic Media
Published: 03/10/2018
Pages: 32
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.13lbs
Size: 9.21h x 6.14w x 0.07d
ISBN: 9780991292745

About the Author
Avery, Laurence: - Laurence Avery had a decades-long career as teacher and scholar at UNC-Chapel Hill, where he served as chairman of the English department. He has published numerous articles on British and American playwrights and six books, among them; A Southern Life: Letters of Paul Green, 1916-1981, winner of the C. Hugh Holman Award for distinguished contributions to the study of Southern literature. Avery also published the definitive edition of Paul Green's play, The Lost Colony. In 2006 Dr. Avery received the North Carolina Literary and Historical Association's R. Hunt Parker Award for significant contributions to North Carolina literature. In 2013, Avery published his first book of poems, Mountain Gravity .The poems in this collection, accessible and erudite at once, touch the reader with historical stories of American Indians who lived in the North Carolina mountains, of contemporary Southern families maturing in a fast paced world, and of Carolina flora and fauna, beloved by Avery, adapting to changing habitats in the Blue Ridge Mountains.Davis, Patricia Lockwood: - Patricia Lockwood Davis taught art in schools and privately in New York, Connecticut and Massachusetts and her art has been exhibited in Boston and Chapel Hill and their surrounding areas. She was fortunate to study in a variety of art institutions in Boston, New York and Washington, DC and individually with several talented and creative artists in Ottawa, Boston, and Chapel Hill. Loving variety, her curiosity lead her to explore anatomy, anthropology, art education, art history, calligraphy, design, needlework, silk screening, weaving, figure, portrait & still life drawing & painting. Patricia has worked in a variety of mediums: oil, tempera, pen & ink, colored pencil, watercolor, pastels and acrylics. In 2013 she received a Certificate in Botanical Art and Illustration from the NC Botanical Garden and is a member of the Guild of Natural Science Illustrators. One of her favorite quotes is Marcel Proust's "The real voyage of discovery is not in seeking new lands but in seeing with new eyes".

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