My New Book of Poetry Home By Another Road is Here
Announcing the publication of my new book!
Cathy Warner's Home By Another Road takes us down the highway of reflection and, whether she is the driver or the passenger, it's a journey that asks all the big questions: Where do we come from? Who are we? Where are we going? What is home? Warner uses every map available to answer these questions and we are fortunate to have an honest narrator at the wheel. While navigating the complicated territory of family, faith, forgiveness, regret, and redemption, she clearly understands we all must pay the toll for the right of passage we call life. Warner has the rare insight to acknowledge all the sadness and grief buckled up beside her while never forgetting to look in the rear view mirror where joy sits patiently in the back seat, waiting for her to take up her pen.
-Carey Taylor, author of The Lure of Impermanence
The range of Cathy Warner's poems in Home by Another Road is remarkable. She is equally at home in life's darkest challenges as in life's delights--and she creates her own delights in poems that vary from pensive to playful, exploratory to exuberant. As the book's title suggests, many of the poems engage particular journeys, while the book's sections lead us through a road trip of ever-changing experiences. You'll find this collection an enriching traveling companion.
-Peggy Rosenthal, author of Praying Through Poetry: Hope for Violent Times
Take a walk with Cathy Warner as she maps out the contours of a life of faith, which is ultimately a life of deep relationship. From mountain-top moments of clarity and connection, to valleys of doubt and pain, these poems chart a course through the difficult terrain of personal transformation, using language and sound generous enough to welcome even the novice traveler. Home by Another Road is a bracingly honest record of healing, and finally of hope, from a trustworthy poet and guide.
-Melissa Reeser Poulin, author of Rupture, Light
Cathy Warner is an observant, trustworthy, traveling companion. Riding shotgun on this poetic journey of discovery with her, the reader recognizes landmarks along the rutted roads, detours, and scenic routes that reveal treasures hidden in the soil and dirt and dust and mud. The journey starts out smooth and lyrical, climbing with the switchbacks of memory, eventually carving a path into the dark woods. Through fitful dreams and sleepless nights, the poems press on into the mystery and the reader emerges, not unscathed, but headed for home, "holding fast to the slivers of light illuminating the darkness." By any other route, we'd miss so much.
-Constance Mears, author of The Bumbling Mystic's Obituary