Poetry. Catherine Wagner's poems proclaim a finitude that is anything but final, that is instead embodied and generative. That Wagner is in love with the world and its transactions--perceptions, superficial and otherwise; childbearing, painful and otherwise; gains, financial and otherwise--allows for a poetry that is full of song yet brazenly topical. "Absolutely insouciant; energy constant, focused, and ingenious...faithful to the scary parts; and reckless"--Alice Notley.

Author Hometown: OXFORD, OH USA



About the author: Catherine Wagner was born in Burma and grew up in Baltimore. She is the author of MY NEW JOB (2009), MACULAR HOLE (2004) and MISS AMERICA (2001), all from Fence Books. 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.

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