Blue egg, my heart by Cathy Larson Sky

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Crack open the pages of Blue egg, my heart, and you will find poems that sing of loss, longing, family, friends, and, ultimately, redemption. The lyric language is rich with vivid detail. In this, her first poetry collection, Cathy Larson Sky keeps her eyes open to possibility, to dreams, to reflections about what has been lost. There is no attempt to sugar-coat memories. “I know it is awful,/but isn’t it thrilling,” she writes in one poem. These poems are full of awe, and yes, they are thrilling. So, come, break into these poems, and enjoy the music from a talented poet.

−Pat Riviere-Seel, author, The Serial Killer’s Daughter, and Nothing Below But Air

 

Cathy Larson Sky’s poetry, like her music, is by turns, stunning, disquieting, melodic and memorable. It is survival poetry edged with anger and conflict but always steeped in a search for a deeper knowledge of the inner workings of the heart and leads us finally, to love.

— Earl LeClaire, Poet and Raconteur. Author of Below the Mayonnaise Factory and Epiphanies and Benedictions.

 

Cathy Sky‘s poetry reflects a direct, observant eye; clever in her metaphoric leaps, her poems are fanciful, incisive and surprising. Reading them is one of life’s pleasures.

— Tina Barr

Rating: ***** [5 of 5 Stars!]

 

 

 

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Blue egg, my heart

by Cathy Larson Sky

$14, paper

Cathy Larson Sky is originally from the rocky sea coast of New England, a setting she left behind to marry a Southern man and follow him to County Clare, Ireland, then to Chapel Hill, North Carolina. She has enjoyed a rich music life in traditional Irish fiddling. Her husband Patrick is a player and maker of the Irish Uilleann pipes; together they have performed in festivals and clubs along the Eastern seaboard and recorded a CD, Down to us. Since 1987 she’s written features, music reviews, and columns for the Raleigh News and Observer, Independent Weekly, NC Folklore Journal, and New Hibernia Review but it wasn’t until she relocated from the urban environment of Chapel Hill to the mountain mining town of Spruce Pine, NC in 2007 that she devoted herself to poetry.

A need to write things down is part of living in Appalachia, with its sometimes-harrowing isolation. Another mountain truth is the frank need for help from others to survive. In that spirit, Cathy has received warm support for her work from teachers of the Great Smoky Mountains Writers Program as well as friends at Eve’s Night Out, a women writers’ group in Burnsville, NC. The annual Carolina Mountains Literary Festival, also in Burnsville, brings fresh inspiration to a perennially enthusiastic writing and reading community, so fond of words that the wooden floor of a small restaurant is painted with poems by local writers, in letters entwined with wildflowers.

During these years in the hills, Cathy’s poems have appeared in Western North Carolina Woman, Great Smokies Review and Womego online magazine. At the podium, she weaves her fiddling into poetry performance, believing that the beauty of Irish tunes opens hearts to word and emotion.

Read Cathy’s fiddle chats at: http://www.patricksky.com/Fiddle.htm
Find her rants, essays, and poetry at: http://cathylarsonsky.blogspot.com/

Rating: *****  [5 of 5 Stars!]

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