Glad & Sorry Seasons

Catherine Chandler's poetry, translations and essays have been published in numerous journals and anthologies in North America, the U.K. and Australia. Winner of the Howard Nemerov Sonnet Award, she is the author of Lines of Flight (Able Muse Press, 2011), a collection of sonnets, This Sweet Order (White Violet Press, 2012) and two chapbooks. Glad and Sorry Seasons is her second full-length collection. Recently retired from McGill University where she lectured in the Department of Translation Studies, Catherine resides in Saint-Lazare, Quebec.

The winner of the Howard Nemerov Sonnet Award explores the extremes of joy and sorrow in a formally diverse collection.

CONTENTS:Part I: Give Sorrow WordsComing to Terms Two Poems of the Sea I. The Dawning II. To a Minor Goddess The Flying Moment Vinegar Tree O The Measure of Their Days The Crag Intervals Part II: Driving Back ShadowsOn a Line from Millay A Fieldstone Fence Haiku The Ovenbird Breva Bequeathal November Winterbourne Part III: The Oldest SinsSALIGIA: Seven Deadly Sonnets: I. Superbia II. Acedia III. Luxuria IV. Invidia V. Gula VI. Ira VII. Avaritia Part IV: With Mirth and LaughterSonnet Love The Bard All These Words A Mother's Kyrielle When Prayer on December 26th Rush Hour Sonondilla She In Retrospect Part V: A Smack of All Neighbouring LanguagesFrench: Romantisme québécois: Pamphile Le May: My Childhood Home Louis-Honoré Fréchette: Niagara Louis Dantin: The Stars Albert Lozeau: It's Raining Émile Nelligan: The Passerby Spanish: Modernismo hispanoamericano: María Eugenia Vaz Ferreira: The Mysterious Star Delmira Agustini: The Wonderful Boat Gabriela Mistral: The Sonnets of Death (I) Alfonsina Storni: Inheritance Juana de Ibarbourou: Rebel Part VI: Glad and Sorry SeasonsThe Lost Villages: Inundation Day Upheavals Heartwood The Red Beads Ragbag Beach Dogs Críonnacht Waiting Edward Hopper's Automat Notes