Poetry. "There is a troubled and mischievous soul running through the corridors of HOTEL FAUST. It is a soul determined not to be lost. Listen as it grabs and rattles its raw ambivalent sexuality, its solid yet mercurial American identity, its given taken and shaken language. Wagner's poems are poltergeists intruding in the vulnerable reality of the humdrum loony world. They disturb, fascinate and physically move" - Geraldine Monk. "I pick and pick the seam all day/ does I really think anything covers me up/ this my swan is it/ eyes at one end cunt at the other/ a swaying hurting wonder between/ which is posture perfect" - from "CafT Rouge."

Author City: OXFORD, OH USA

Catherine Wagner was born in Burma and grew up in Baltimore. She is the author of NERVOUS DEVICE (City Lights Publishers, 2012), MY NEW JOB (Fence Books, 2009), MACULAR HOLE (Fence Books, 2004) and MISS AMERICA (Fence Books, 2001). With Rebecca Wolff, she edited NOT FOR MOTHERS ONLY: CONTEMPORARY POEMS ON CHILD-GETTING & CHILD REARING (Fence Books, 2007). Recent chapbooks include Bornt (Dusie, 2009), Articulate How (Big Game, 2008) and Hole in the Ground (Slack Buddha, 2008). She teaches at Miami University in Oxford, OH.