All Those Windowed Rooms - Paperback

by Cathy Allman (Author)

All Those Windowed Rooms sifts through memories whittling clarity from chaos. Poems catch fragments of a woman across decades and identities, looking for herself between the past and what she couldn't or didn't see coming. The collection is about perception-tension between views from inside looking out and from the outside looking in, the difference on either side of the glass. Whether conversational, confessional, or ekphrastic, these poems' introspections intersect with What once was morphing into What next? like crystal frozen on a window pane, which, in the right light, sparkles only to then dissolve in the sun, like time.