John, author of The Last Troubadour : Selected and New Poems Gripping Fieldglass in your hands, it is impossible ever to look away.”- David St. Often gestural, elliptical, and devastating, Pond’s poems assemble into luminous constellations of echoing loss. Her poetry, with its visceral lyric grace and nuanced modulations, recalls the work of a young Louise Glück in its naked disquiet, its sense of imagistic reflection, and its arresting beauty. “With this single breathtaking debut, Catherine Pond has earned her place among the most powerful, visionary, and inventive poets of her generation. "Pond’s scintillating debut examines family history, female friendship, geography, and sexual identity in poems of startling craft and vision. Throughout, poems accumulate and echo off one another, unveiling a distinctive and highly perceptive queer identity on the page."- Publishers Weekly Deeply personal and intense, searching and yearning, associative and lyric, Fieldglass is a confessional about growing up, loving hard, and letting go. Reflective, graceful, and understated, Pond’s images accumulate power through restraint and suggestion. As the collection unfolds, the speaker journeys toward adulthood, risking intimacy and attempting to undo her embedded impulses toward silence and absorption.
She is perpetually in transit, with long drives, flights, and train rides-moving most often between the city and the foothills of the Adirondack Mountains.
Saturated by her surroundings and permeated by the emotional lives of those close to her, the speaker struggles with feelings of displacement, trauma, and separateness. A queer coming-of-age, this collection is a candid exploration of sexual identity, family dynamics, and friendships that elude easy categorization, offering insight on the ambiguous nature of identity. Sexual identity, female friendship, and queer experiences of loveįraught with obsession, addiction, and unrequited love, Catherine Pond’s Fieldglass immerses us in the speaker’s transition from childhood to adulthood.
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