Catch and Release by Sarah Van Arsdale

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Catch and Release

by Sarah Van Arsdale

Full-length,Paper

List: $24.99

979-8-88838-670-5

2024

Catch and Release takes the reader into vivid oceanic realms off the coast of Mexico through Sarah Van Arsdale‘s watercolor illustrations of stoplight parrotfish and nurse sharks, sergeant majors and barracuda. The poetic and richly detailed story of an imprisoned shark’s liberation confronts humanity’s role in the destruction of the magnificent underwater world, while offering hope for the planet’s future.

Sarah Van Arsdale is a writer and illustrator. Her sixth book, Taken, a poetry collection, was published in 2021 by Finishing Line Press. She is the author of four books of fiction: Toward Amnesia (Riverhead, 1996), Blue (winner of the Peter Taylor Prize for the Novel, University of Tennessee Press, 2003), Grand Isle (SUNY Press, 2012), and In Case of Emergency, Break Glass (Queen’s Ferry Press, 2016) and a single book-length poem, titled The Catamount, published by Nomadic Press in 2017. Her watercolors illustrate The Catamount and In Case of Emergency, Break Glass. She holds an MFA in Poetry from Vermont College, and teaches in the Antioch University/LA low-residency MFA program. More of her drawings, short films, and writing can be seen at sarahvanarsdale.com