Announcing CavanKerry's Spring 2014 Releases

Same Old Story
by Dawn Potter

Release date: March 2014

Even as she reminds us that writing “doesn’t solve anything,” Potter is driven to chronicle “the years murmur[ing] their old tune” in this compilation of sonnets, extended narratives, and shifting invented forms. Her rushing lyric voice binds together the personal, cultural, and imaginative histories that create the inevitable and complications of human character.

“Variously delightful in their strategies and shapes, the poems of Same Old Story know that merely examining life cannot make it worthy… Dawn Potter evokes the fragile poise of our longings. Her deft formal skills, her self-questioning wit, and her brave infiltrations of ordinary experience with poetry’s cumulative resources illuminate every page of this memorable book.” —Robert Farnsworth

Spooky Action at a Distance
by Howard Levy

Release date: April 2014

Spooky Action at a Distance , a phrase coined by Albert Einstein, seems an exact and powerful description of love between two people, the connection that impels the self to discover the joys and to embrace the pain. Levy’s poems seek to map these opposite poles and the landscape between, following  the rivers of emotions that rise from the despairing sense of isolation and the exultant sense of being affined allowing the self to discover its link to all things in the world.

“Howard Levy’s remarkable second book chronicles the human struggle to overcome the often vast emotional distances between people, between the self and the world, and even between oneself and one’s own life… The collection’s final poems not only glimpse the world’s splendor but “offer it up as the heart and grace of love.” –Jeffrey Harrison