Lines of Flight

Poetry. LINES OF FLIGHT is the first full-length collection from Catherine Chandler, an acclaimed American poet of quiet elegance whose simple style belies the range and depth of her poems. She is equally at ease with poems of nature as with those of people, relationships, landscapes and realms--the domestic, the foreign, even those scanning the vast unknown of space or the esoterica of science. These poems, carefully crafted with formal dexterity in contemporary idiom, are deployed with precision in a showcase of forms such as the villanelle, sapphic, ballad, pantoum, triolet, nonce, and the sonnet--Chandler's specialty, for which she won the Howard Nemerov Sonnet Award. Catherine Chandler's poems--I think particularly of the sonnet Vermont Passage--offer the reader a plain eloquence, a keen eye, and a graceful development of thought. Elsewhere in this fine book, she puts her gifts at the service of wit, as in the little anti-poetic poem Supernova. LINES OF FLIGHT is altogether a lively performance--Richard Wilbur.

Author: Catherine Chandler
Publisher: Able Muse Press
Published: 04/04/2011
Pages: 98
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.34lbs
Size: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.23d
ISBN: 9780986533839

About the Author
Chandler, Catherine: - Catherine Chandler, an American poet born in New York City and raised in Pennsylvania, completed her graduate studies at McGill University in Montreal, where she has lectured in the Department of Languages and Translation for many years. In 2011, she received the Howard Nemerov Sonnet Award. Her poems, interviews, essays and English translations from French and Spanish have been published in numerous journals and anthologies in the USA, the UK, Canada and Australia. Catherine is the author of two chapbooks and is co-editor of Passages (The Greenwood Centre for Living History, 2010). LINES OF FLIGHT (Able Muse Press, 2011) is her first full-length collection.

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