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Princeton University. New York University.
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Into Perfect Spheres Such Holes Are Pierced
( The family response to the sudden deaths of the speaker...)
The family response to the sudden deaths of the speaker's two young nieces is at the center of Catherine Barnett's award-winning first collection. This series of elegies records the transit of grief, observing with an unflinching eye how a singular traumatic event can permanently alter our understanding of time, danger, the material world and family. Marked by clarity and restraint, these lyric poems narrate a suspenseful, wrenching story that explores the depths and limits of empathy. “Living Room Altar” Except for the shirt pulled from the ocean, except for her hands, which keep folding the shirt, except for her body, which once held their bodies, my sister wants everything back now— If there were a god who could out of empty shells carried by waves to shore make amends— If the ocean saved in a jar could keep from turning to salt— She’s hearing things: bird calling to bird, cat outside the door, thorn of the blackberry against the trellis. "These heart-breaking poems of an all-too-human life stay as absolute as the determined craft which made them. There is finally neither irony nor simple despair in what they record. Rather, it is the far deeper response of witness, of recognizing what must be acknowledged and of having the courage and the care to say so." —Robert Creeley
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Catherine Barnett
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She has published widely in journals and magazines including The American Poetry Review, Barrow Street, The Iowa Review, The Kenyon Review, The Massachusetts Review, Pleiades, The Virginia Quarterly Review, and The Washington Post. Barnett is an instructor at New York University and The New School and has been the Visiting Poet at Barnard College. As poet-in-residence at the Children’s Museum of Manhattan, she teaches writing to young mothers in New York City’s shelter system.
She also works as an independent editor and recently collaborated with the composer Richard Einhorn on the libretto for "The Origin," his multimedia oratorio about the life of Charles Darwin.
She received her Bachelor of Arts from Princeton University and an Master of Fine Arts from Warren Wilson College Master of Fine Arts Program for Writers. 2006 Guggenheim fellowship.
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Into Perfect Spheres Such Holes Are Pierced
( The family response to the sudden deaths of the speaker...)
- Into Perfect Spheres Such Holes Are Pierced by Barnett, Catherine (May 1, 2004) Paperback
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Into Perfect Spheres Such Holes Are Pierced
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In addition, she is a member of the Alice James Books Cooperative Board.
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