Chapter Break with Catherine Jagoe

Catherine Jagoe is a British American poet, essayist and translator. Her poems have been featured on The Writer’s Almanac and Poetry Daily. Her previous poetry collections include Bloodroot, News from the North, and Casting Off. Bloodroot won the 2016 Settlement House American Poetry Prize, the Council for Wisconsin Writers poetry book award, and the Wisconsin Library Association Outstanding Achievement award. Her nonfiction has received a Pushcart Prize and a citation in Best American Essays. She is a contributor to Wisconsin Public Radio’s Wisconsin Life series and lives in Madison, where she works as a translator from Spanish to English.Praying to the God of Small Things celebrates our bountiful and threatened natural world. At times the soothsayer, at times the scientist, the narrator weaves wonder and horror as she looks unflinchingly at the realities of our changing biosphere and its disappearing species. These exacting poems telescope in and out, braiding the tangible effects of climate change and keen observations of small creatures. One section, on insects, is accompanied by color photographs. Never steering away from the complicity of being human, she nevertheless wields the very human power of language, in poems palpable with love for the inhabitants of this planet.LINKS:CatherineJagoe.comKelsay BooksAmazon order pageWisconsin Book Festival