Empty Me Full

Catherine Abbey Hodges is well-known to Gunpowder Press readers as winner of the inaugural Barry Spacks Poetry Prize for her first book, Instead of Sadness (2015), and as the author of Raft of Days (2017). Her newest collection, Empty Me Full, is available now. 

Praise for Empty Me Full:

Empty Me Full is an invitation to intimate conversation with a wise and affectionate seeker. Here is a wit-laced and vulnerable wondering. In poems that turn grief to awe and sadness to wonder, the poet celebrates our stunning, imperfect lives.  

—Barbara Rockman, author of to cleave

Catherine Abbey Hodges mingles elegies of loss with skillful praise of tenuous beauties in ways that make the heart rejoice even as it keeps on aching. These are gorgeous and thoughtful poems.

—Paul J. Willis, author of Somewhere to Follow

This beautifully paced book is a lovely, inviting incantation to notice, to be aware, to live this world “a little more awake,” and to always query, “how did we / get here? And can we stay forever?” 

—Jen Karetnick, author of Inheritance with a High Error Rate

Here, Catherine Abbey Hodges tenderly interrogates the workings of time. She travels with remarkable ease through the liminal corridors between life and death, how we remember, and what we can know. 

—Donna Spruijt-Metz, author of General Release from the
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