It’s winter, according to the tilt of the earth. Yet in south-central Pennsylvania, where I live, both plants and animals are giving notice of what’s

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It’s winter, according to the tilt of the earth. Yet in south-central Pennsylvania, where I live, both plants and animals are giving notice of what’s shortly to come. Juncos, the small gray snow birds that populate my backyard, have begun their yearly migration. I see only a few these days. And through the slowly melting snow I’ve noticed the quiet green of crocuses beginning to grow.

In this part of the world, people look forward to the end of winter. I’m a winter person. I love the snow and cold, and the short days and long nights. But every year I too gratefully inhale the signs of spring.

Here at CavanKerry the season means new poetry, and in the coming months we look forward to the release of three new titles. Orphans, by Joan Cusack Handler, examines aging parents and the poet’s own mortality through verse. Eating Moors and Christians, by Sandra M. Castillo, presents exile literature from a Havana born poet now living in the United States. Tornadoesque, by Donald Platt, is a book of poetry and lyric prose that reports on sexuality and middle age.

Enjoy the winter that’s yet to come as you mark your calendar for the arrival of these new releases.

-Starr Troup, Managing Editor

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A Peek at Our Spring Releases

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Orphans

Joan Cusack Handler

In Orphans, a verse memoir, poet psychologist Joan Cusack Handler explores our most primitive and ambivalent relationships – those with aging parents – meanwhile confronting her own mortality. In a life lesson we’re often unprepared for, Handler presents the reversal of roles and the eruption of unresolved conflicts that persist from childhood.

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Eating Moors and Christians

Sandra Castillo

Eating Moors and Christians depicts a conflicted history and utilizes the Cuban Revolution as a springboard from which to discuss what is at the center of exile literature – liminality. It explores universal issues as it aims to enlarge the scope of diaspora literature and transcend boundaries of ethnicity, expanding the conversation about the work of Cuban-American writers.

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Tornadoesque

Donald Platt

Through Platt’s trademark of alternating long and short lines, and through occasional lyric prose, Tornadoesque becomes a weather report from middle age, as the poet discovers his bisexuality in a heterosexual marriage of longstanding passion, responds to war in the Middle East and the deaths and illnesses of friends, and gives an eyewitness account of what is lost and what’s saved when a tornado touches down.

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