Gin & Bleach

Catherine Wing's first book of poems, Enter Invisible, was the second title in Sarabande's Woodford Reserve Series in Kentucky Literature, and was nominated for a 2005 Los Angeles Times Book Prize. Her poems have appeared in Best American Poetry 2010 and such journals as Crazyhorse, Chicago Review, DIAGRAM, The New Republic, and Poetry. She grew up in Louisville, Kentucky, on a street bounded by two florists, one cemetery, and a Carnegie library. She currently teaches at Kent State University in Ohio.

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"Wittily rhymed and bloodily vivid, Wing’s poems of romance and damage show the poet seeking something to 'overwhelm me, a love-in-the-mist sort of time.'"—Publishers Weekly“Catherine Wing’s Gin & Bleach aims to burn us clear (as only corrosives like gin and bleach can do) to a better understanding of our place in the world.”—Barbara Hoffert, Library Journal Pre-Pub Alert