Mayflies by Cassandra Caverhill

$14.99

 

What happens when we are “flies caught between glass and screen”? Or when we watch “the upended city spin” as youthful passions, restlessness, addictions and deep despair pound our body and brain? The need for love, for belonging, for redemption looms large. These brave, sensuous, cleverly crafted poems are controlled but what they hold within cannot be controlled. Immersed in a harsh reality seemingly without hope, Caverhill looks unflinchingly at darkness, at transience, at when life “suddenly splits into before and after.” This chapbook makes us walk the brink of the abyss, portrays struggle and survival, and the poet pushes us to the edge—we are always “on the verge of breaking open.”

–Zilka Joseph, Author of Sharp Blue Search of Flame, What Dread, and Lands I Live In

 

 

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Mayflies

by Cassandra Caverhill

$14.99, paper

978-1-64662-282-5

2020

Cassandra Caverhill is a poet and freelance editor from Ann Arbor, Michigan. Her work has appeared in Cæsura, Open Palm Print, Typishly, The Louisville Review and Great Lakes Review. She is an MFA Poetry candidate at Bowling Green State University and an instructor in the University Writing Program. She was born and raised in Windsor, Ontario.

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