Field of View is getting published by Atlantic Filtration Systems in March!
“What are these? It’s a question I find myself asking about the best minimalism. The poems in Field of View — or are they scraps? fragments? sequences? — are also little sculptures of words that flash, intermittently and one after the other, into humble intimacies of utterance. From the “bic blue lighter sky” to accidentally bringing “line drawing tools to the Pointillist Lectures,” this is a poetics of earnest feeling, where verse is prose and even the irony’s sincere. Cat’s poems track and probe their own slow-floating attention to shadow, mountain, horizon, meadow, texture, timbre, and line.”
– Monroe Lawrence, author of Gravity Siren and About to Be Young
Field of View, Cat Love’s first full length book, contains poems written over five years collected into five frames: My Pills, Questions about Design, Portrait, Still Life, and Landscape. The poems in this book organize the shifting elements of our world, rapidly moving between the conscious and the subconscious to build and collapse structures of clarity. Weaving together themes of love, the weather, architecture, isolation, the American landscape, god, and time, Field of View is concerned with the mysteries of perception and perspective.