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Next Reading Separation & Return, Saturday, Sept 17, 2011, Thompkins Sq.Park Library, 331 E. 10th st. 3:30pm. Click here for
library directions.
THANK YOU TO EVERYONE WHO CAME TO THE READING AND TO THOSE WHO SENT GOOD WISHES - IT WAS WONDERFUL TO BIRTH THIS WORK-
25 YEARS IS ONE LONG PREGNANCY! THE BABY IS RESTING AND HAPPY. THANK YOU FROM MY HEART~CATE
Announcing the publication of my poetry work: SEPARATION AND RETURN, Vantage Press, 2010.
It is a collection from 1986-2008. The introduction is written by Genny Kapuler, a Master Iyengar Yoga teacher and friend.
It may be purchased here, Vantage Press or any fine booksellers both real and online.
Enjoy!
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| Book Fair 2010 |
CLICK HERE to send an email inquiry to purchase the book: $15 plus shipping and handling $2.50 per book(domestic) in money
order only at this time. Please put 'Separation and Return' in the subject line. Thanks.
Separation and Return featured in Woodstock Herbalist, Susun Weed's Wise Woman weblog
Review from Currents, a Body-Mind Centering Assoc. journal:By Beth Goren
In SEPARATION AND RETURN, Cate McNider's
recent book of poetry, the author creates an indelible, in-depth work, rich with metaphor and imagery, empowered with feeling,
tone, straight talk, and delicate with a vulnerability that touches tender places, permeating soul and presence. Share in the journey of a poet's diverse life path as artist, naturalist,
sensory being, daughter, great-neice, pet lover and insightful human. As we read through this important coming-of-age offering,
we travel alongside a heart that is winding through vulnerability-strength, anger-sadness-acceptance, fear-courage, and loss-release
to find home. There are strong bonds within the
poet's words-connections to nature, the body and family. Look for the poems filled with the heart of loving remembrance
for Aunt-Virginia and Uncle George(pp26-7, 31); Cate's dog Mimi in "Mimi's Heartbeat"(pp.79) and a mother, "blissfully eating
a plain crystal sugar coated donut" in "Dunkin' Donuts" (pp.25)
And BMC-ers take note: Heart A Coi
Heart, a coi waving through the pond of lungs navigator of the
spine.
Vantage Press 2010, 81 pps $15
R E V I E W S:
Publishers Weekly:
A poignant collection of poetry about recovering the self.
The Midwest Book Review:
Searching for what one truly is, a journey that may take decades. "Separation and Return" is a collection of poetry from
Cate McNider, drawing on her own experiences with trying to understand her own desires to feel comfortable in her own skin.
Touching and moving, "Separation and Return" is an excellent collection of poetry. "Fiction": This, a fiction we all live,/ceaselessly
turning out plots,/no time to stop, yet/ we move to still the frames. - Margaret Lane, Reviewer
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Separation and Return is a fluid oracle-like time capsule. The poems written between 1986 and 2008 are musically structured
and enable the reader to enter as if in divination from a variety of sympathetic perspectives.
Images like fingerprints, photographic processing, hieroglyphics and cave paintings are perfect metaphors for the conceit
of the past inhabiting the present.
Cate's canonic at times Dickinsonian internalization of the universe, tempered with her modern sensibility and surprising
syntax, infuses and connects the poems. Recurring motifs like the language of the body, the love between mother and child,
canine companion or the space that we occupy and that embraces us, bring us deeper into the volumes cohesive center. Cate
has not only left us with a splendid collection of her poetry but a portal into presence and absence , language and skin ,
spirit and emotion universe and soul, Separation and Return.
- RB of RRRecords, NYC
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"What a lovely book. It has given us great pleasure and a bit of wonderment as well. You have such a delicate torch and
yet you do not look away, causing one to consider again what one has just read." -WK from PA
Cate, I wanted to write and let you know how much I am enjoying
getting to know you through your writing... I have been reading your book for the past couple of days and really enjoying
it, Thank You! --- RM, NYC
So lovely to see your beautiful art and read your poems. I'm so
happy for your success, congratulations! - GMcG, NYC
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