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Empty Me Full

October 4, 2024

The latest collection from Catherine Abbey Hodges is available now.

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

Available now from Gunpowder Press, Bookshop.org, Amazon, and elsewhere.

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