Better Living through Cats by Clark A. Pomerleau

“Pomerleau’s poems invite us into a layered world of domestic grief and tender mindfulness.  Cats pad through family narratives, starring in poems of comfort and self-awareness. One speaker longs to ‘bat at sunbeams’ while another treasures a grandmother’s dream-gifts. Pomerleau gently leads the reader through anxiety, loss, and quiet joy.”

–Emily K. Michael, Neoteny: Poems (Finishing Line Press, 2019)

In Better Living Through Cats, poet Clark A. Pomerleau accompanies his readers from the evergreen treeline to a painterly horizon, and back again. Pomerleau’s compassionate while assertive lyricism co-mingles tales of family anguish and resilience with cross-temporal landscapes, replete with felines both furry and idiomatic. The poems settle into an uneasy refuge—as a cat might curl upon itself to rest, but tends to stay at-the-ready in its attentiveness. However one reads this lovely collection, purring will reap its rewards.

–Diane R. Wiener, author of The Golem Verses (Nine Mile, 2018)