Books
The Lackawanna Valley George Inness c.1856 oil on canvas
National Gallery of Art
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National Gallery of Art
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If someone were to ask you, Where are you from?
What would you answer?
For me, the answer is: I grew up in a painting.
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Black Diamonds: A Childhood Colored by Coal
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If someone were to ask you, Where are you from?
What would you answer?
For me, the answer is: I grew up in a painting.
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Black Diamonds: A Childhood Colored by Coal
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In 1855, the landscape painter George Inness began work
on his commissioned painting The Lackawanna Valley.
A century later, a girl in Scranton, Pennsylvania,
looks out over her coal-strewn homeland
wishing for beauty, wondering where the artist
had stood with his canvas.
Black Diamonds: A Childhood Colored by Coal
from Torrey House Press
September 2023 | Nonfiction | 9781948814836 | 288 pp | $17.95
https://www.torreyhouse.org/black-diamonds
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from Torrey House Press
September 2023 | Nonfiction | 9781948814836 | 288 pp | $17.95
https://www.torreyhouse.org/black-diamonds
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**Inness's Window Into History**
Youtube presentation of Black Diamonds
on the Lackawanna Historical Society's
Lackawanna Past Times
Watch: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7OF2duiIqAU
Youtube presentation of Black Diamonds
on the Lackawanna Historical Society's
Lackawanna Past Times
Watch: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7OF2duiIqAU
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~Coal Year ~
"Coal Year" was published in Kestral, Volume 37, Spring
nominated for Best American Essays
Read: "Coal Year"
Listen :
nominated for Best American Essays
Read: "Coal Year"
Listen :
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~The Time of Anise ~
“Here this day we are warmed in the womb of the sagging kitchen rimmed in red, white, yellow.
Anise clings to our clothes, and even the dog smells like an anise cookie. We are wrapped in the warmth of anise
on the cold walk home. In this holy time our incense is anise.”
Recorded for WDRT Landward
Listen:
Anise clings to our clothes, and even the dog smells like an anise cookie. We are wrapped in the warmth of anise
on the cold walk home. In this holy time our incense is anise.”
Recorded for WDRT Landward
Listen:
~Gas Stove~
"As we watch TV, the coal furnace rumbles and crunches beneath our living room floor. When all is still, when were upstairs lying on our beds, will hear the coal trains rumble upgrade. We know who we are. It's our coal on those trains. Our coal.
Our fuel to burn."
Listen:
Our fuel to burn."
Listen:
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Listen to a conversation about Black Diamonds and writing from
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Listen to a conversation about Black Diamonds and writing from
Write On! Four Corners podcast
with DelSheree Gladden
KSJE from Farmington,
New Mexico
Catherine Young shares stories and experiences from her childhood in Pennsylvania’s Lackawanna Valley as she talks
about her new memoir Black Diamonds
https://ksje.podbean.com/e/write-on-four-corners-with-delsheree-gladden-interview-with-catherine-young/
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Read a conversation about how Black Diamonds came to be:
www.torreyhouse.org/behind-the-book-black-diamonds
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Read an interview about Black Diamonds and writing
Marshall Cook and Catherine Young March 2017 WLSP Radio
Here: "Writers and Their Words"
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Listen to a conversation about Black Diamonds and writing from
Write On! Four Corners podcast
with DelSheree Gladden
KSJE from Farmington,
New Mexico
Catherine Young shares stories and experiences from her childhood in Pennsylvania’s Lackawanna Valley as she talks
about her new memoir Black Diamonds
https://ksje.podbean.com/e/write-on-four-corners-with-delsheree-gladden-interview-with-catherine-young/
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Read a conversation about how Black Diamonds came to be:
www.torreyhouse.org/behind-the-book-black-diamonds
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Read an interview about Black Diamonds and writing
Marshall Cook and Catherine Young March 2017 WLSP Radio
Here: "Writers and Their Words"
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Geosmin (the scent of soil) is celebration of the startling and shimmering earth, praising creatures of soil, sky, and in-between. Geosmin paints a deep map of Wisconsin’s Driftless region while evoking a place found within regions of the heart. “Let us witness / the whirling embrace between / orb and ocean,” writes Catherine Young, who bears witness to the soil, the water and sky, and the amazing richness of a landscape and soulscape that is at once painfully beautiful and alluring and, at the same time, in sad decline. This is “the real America,” she says, “a place / where everyone can freely play together as everything crumbles.” Young is, I think, a fresh and invaluable voice in American poetry, her linguistic strength vivid in each poem in this pristine collection. She’s the real thing, and I celebrate her and Geosmin.” Jay Parini, author of NEW AND COLLECTED POEMS, 1975-2015 |
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Catherine Young writes from the heart and from the land, with the keen eye of a geologist and the soul of a poet. In the tradition of Gary Snyder, Mary Oliver, and Louise Glück. These poems honor rural life and the earth itself, poems concerned with the soil, with water, with the changing seasons, and with language. In short, they grapple with what it means to be human and one part of this fragile and natural world. --
Christopher Chambers, editor Midwest Review
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Worlds within worlds unfold, ambered in words, as we follow her wanderings on the land. Linguistic sensuosity matches the touch of skin on bark, the rocks’ dance, time and space openings from trilobite murmurings to the purple shimmer on Lake Superior’s shore. We roam through a year of change, visit with dairy and goat farmers in the Driftless region, browse in antique shops, and explore the workings of memory. Young’s Geosmin envelopes us in the sense texture of a region, and distills its perfume.
Petra Kuppers, author of Gut Botany
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Catherine Young writes from the heart and from the land, with the keen eye of a geologist and the soul of a poet. In the tradition of Gary Snyder, Mary Oliver, and Louise Glück. These poems honor rural life and the earth itself, poems concerned with the soil, with water, with the changing seasons, and with language. In short, they grapple with what it means to be human and one part of this fragile and natural world. --
Christopher Chambers, editor Midwest Review
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Worlds within worlds unfold, ambered in words, as we follow her wanderings on the land. Linguistic sensuosity matches the touch of skin on bark, the rocks’ dance, time and space openings from trilobite murmurings to the purple shimmer on Lake Superior’s shore. We roam through a year of change, visit with dairy and goat farmers in the Driftless region, browse in antique shops, and explore the workings of memory. Young’s Geosmin envelopes us in the sense texture of a region, and distills its perfume.
Petra Kuppers, author of Gut Botany
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Geosmin is Silver Medal Winner
of the Midwest Book Awards.
of the Midwest Book Awards.
Geosmin ~ the scent of earth
is one of my favorite words
Purchase this poetry collection
Hardcover $25 102 pages
Ask me to mail a copy to you: $25 + $5.00 shipping
*Is there a library you'd like to donate Geosmin to?*
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Or support your favorite independent bookstore
Ask them to order ISBN 978-1-952526-09-1
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is one of my favorite words
Purchase this poetry collection
Hardcover $25 102 pages
Ask me to mail a copy to you: $25 + $5.00 shipping
*Is there a library you'd like to donate Geosmin to?*
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Or support your favorite independent bookstore
Ask them to order ISBN 978-1-952526-09-1
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Coming soon:
Farmwise
By Catherine Young
Currently I am at work on this compendium of our Driftless Area farm life through story, recipes, and song rounds for each month of the year.
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Coming soon:
Farmwise
By Catherine Young
Currently I am at work on this compendium of our Driftless Area farm life through story, recipes, and song rounds for each month of the year.
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