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Two chapbooks in one, Winners & Losers is a love-letter to the art of pro-wrestling. Read in one direction, the poems form a heroic crown of sonnets dedicated to the winners of 14 iconic matches. Flip the book over and you will find a heroic sonnet crown for their losing counterparts. From Ric Flair vs Dusty Rhodes to Vince McMahon vs God, this little volume explores the question what does it mean to fight with all you’ve got when the outcome is already written?
In GRIEFCAKE, Catherine Weiss carries you into a future of space exploration and pro-wrestling. This second full-length collection explores faith, death, body, queerness, marriage, and blockbuster movies. These meticulously crafted poems are clever, heartbreaking, and brimming with hard-fought hope.
Are you over middle school yet? Are you sure? Catherine Weiss’s debut full-length poetry collection asks, how does one recover from growing up a girl? Weiss playfully confronts desire, fatness, addiction, queerness, mental illness, family, trauma, and dinosaurs with shocking vulnerability and biting wit in this poignant collection about adolescence and after.
FERVOR is a chapbook length poem, which also happens to be a golden shovel of the 2000’s hit All Star by Smash Mouth. Over the course of this single piece, Weiss delves into memory, the awkwardness of childhood and adolescence, growth, and forgiveness (of others, yes, but also of self). If it’s true that only shooting stars break the mold, then this chapbook is a comet.
Catherine Weiss 