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Sometimes the weight rises and the telling wells up to be heard. These poems tell those stories.

"Lamplight is both opening and closing. Like any journey-woman on a quest to understand grief, Cathy Cain finds not truth so much as renewal. These poems are like compact, inescapable dreams, bruised with switchbacks that 'shift / over the edge,' where misery becomes a glow, a shine, and, finally, a blaze of love."

-David Biespiel, author of Republic Café

"Cathy Cain's Lamplight explores what lights the darkest nights and how dark those nights can be. She writes to "wear down in poem the pointed pain." We find sparkling songs and savage blues, lamplight and dark. Her poems come home to gratitude in a morning walk, the smell of forgiveness in clean laundry. She invites the sky in at dawn."

-Tricia Knoll, author of Wild Apples and The Unknown Daughter

"Cathy Cain's poems move through lamplit rooms and find everything we've left there, everything we've hidden. The poems in Lamplight bring the world out of silhouette and into the lived-in body. They help us see the treachery and loveliness living within us, and show us where to go."

-Jules Ohman, author of Body Grammar

Poet and artist Cathy Cain is the author of The Weight of Clouds (2022), A Shape of Sky (2021), and Bee Dance (2019), all from The Poetry Box press. She's additionally published a chapbook, Empty Space Places You (2018) from Finishing Line Press. Cain's honors include the Edwin Markham Prize for Poetry, the Paulann Petersen Award for Poetry from Willamette Writers, and a First Place and other citations from the Oregon Poetry Association. Her poetry has appeared in Reed Magazine, The Poeming Pigeon, Verseweavers, VoiceCatcher, and in /pãn| dé | mïk/ 2020: An Anthology of Pandemic Poems.Cain is a two-year Poets Studio alumna and an Atheneum Fellow, both at the Attic Institute of Arts and Letters in Portland, Oregon. She has studied with visiting poets hosted by Portland's Literary Arts and at the Mountain Writers Series. Cain holds degrees in literature and visual art from Lewis & Clark College, MAT; Oregon State University, BFA; and University of Washington, BA, Phi Beta Kappa. She has also studied at the Pacific Northwest College of Art.