{"title":"Cecilia Woloch","description":"\u003cp\u003eCecilia Woloch is the author of six collections of poetry, including two from BOA Editions: \u003cem\u003eLate\u003c\/em\u003e (2004), for which she was named Georgia Author of the Year; and \u003cem\u003eCarpathia\u003c\/em\u003e (2009), a finalist for the Milton Kessler Poetry Award. A celebrated teacher, Woloch has conducted poetry workshops for thousands of children, young people, professional writers, and educators throughout the United States and around the world. She is also the founding director of Summer Poetry in Idyllwild and of the Paris Poetry Workshop. For more information about Cecilia Woloch, visit \u003ca href=\"http:\/\/ceciliawoloch.squarespace.com\/\"\u003ececiliawoloch.squarespace.com\u003c\/a\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e","products":[{"product_id":"late","title":"Late","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eLate\u003c\/em\u003e is driven by the alternating energies of prose poems and free verse. Woloch understands a person's true relationships with family, friends and lovers arrive late--if at all. The exquisite pathos in these poems disclose Woloch's abiding empathy for family, children, ex-lovers and strangers. \"Woloch is a generous lyricist. She is wonderfully at ease in the villanelle and the pantoum, as well as in prose poems that break into lines as we read them. To write movingly about love in an era infused with hate requires a special gift: nostalgia hard-edged with realism. She has that gift.\" -- Maxine Kumin \"Cecilia Woloch's voice is both intense and precise. In so many of these poems, the forces of memory and longing are expertly brought under the sweet governance of craft and form.\" -- Billy Collins\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eLasswade, Midlothian: Dusk \u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cem\u003eCrow\u003c\/em\u003e, I cried,\u003cem\u003e I need to talk to you\u003c\/em\u003e.\u003cbr\u003eThe whole sky lurched.\u003cbr\u003eBlack wings. Most bitter trees\u003cbr\u003eI've ever seen. Wild daffodils.\u003cbr\u003eHere is a world\u003cbr\u003ethat is just as the world was world \u003cbr\u003ebefore we named it world.\u003cbr\u003eHere is a sky that screams back at me\u003cbr\u003eas I rush toward it, darkening.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e© BOA Editons, Ltd 2003\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAvailable editions:  \u003cbr\u003e--------------------------------------------------------------------------------\u003cbr\u003ePrice: $15.00\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"BOA Editions, Ltd.","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":8418612357,"sku":"1929918429","price":15.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0982\/0178\/products\/Late.jpeg?v=1527683287"},{"product_id":"carpathia-poems","title":"Carpathia","description":"\u003cp\u003eWell-controlled eulogies to her dying father in rural Kentucky, lush lyric and prose poems to lovers and former-lovers in Paris and various Eastern European countries, and compelling anaphoric-based narratives that meander between innocence and experience, body and soul\u003cspan size=\"3\"\u003e\u003cspan color=\"#000000\"\u003e—\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003ethese are the motifs in Cecilia Woloch's stirring collection, \u003ci\u003eCarpathia\u003c\/i\u003e. Cecilia is, first and foremost, a relentless traveler (and watcher) of the human condition. Her poems risk the heart, teach and delight, and remind us that we won't leave this earth without our share of love and weeping. What reviewer Willaim Neumire said of her last collection \u003ci\u003eLate\u003c\/i\u003e, is true of \u003ci\u003eCarpathia\u003c\/i\u003e: \"This collection has a little piece of pleasure for everyone. There are some lyrics in the purest, song-like sense, and there are some lyrical prose-poems that succeed on a more narrative level. This book is a grab-bag of good poems, and each page is a surprise.\" \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"Like taking a year off to travel around the world with a lover (or two), \u003ci\u003eCarpathia\u003c\/i\u003e finds each day an intoxicating delight.  Likewise, every poem, page after page, is a fine one.\" \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cspan size=\"3\"\u003e\u003cspan color=\"#000000\"\u003e—\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003eHerald de Paris\u003c\/strong\u003e \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"Her travelling poetics are striking in the way that she defies the borders of 'narrative' and 'lyric'; she combines the two seamlessly, an enviable gift.\" \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cspan size=\"3\"\u003e\u003cspan color=\"#000000\"\u003e—\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003eSacramento News \u0026amp; Review\u003c\/strong\u003e \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"Cecilia Woloch's poetic voice has grown more lyrically confident with each new book. Now with \u003ci\u003eCarpathia\u003c\/i\u003e, she attempts to lyricize each aspect of her narrated life and succeeds with fine breathtaking abandon.\" \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cspan size=\"3\"\u003e\u003cspan color=\"#000000\"\u003e—\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003eCarol Muske-Dukes, Poet Laureate of California\u003c\/strong\u003e \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e© BOA Editons, Ltd. 2009\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"BOA Editions, Ltd.","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":8420014277,"sku":"9781934414262","price":16.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0982\/0178\/products\/R2_Carpathia_Woloch.jpg?v=1527683195"}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0982\/0178\/collections\/112.1339433869.jpeg?v=1449014608","url":"https:\/\/shop.boaeditions.org\/collections\/cecilia-woloch.oembed","provider":"Boa Editions","version":"1.0","type":"link"}