Description: Select Award-Winning and Published Poems by Katherine Mercurio Gotthardt. Available through San Francisco Bay Press.
Thirty Years of Cardinals Calling Select Published Poems
The cardinal has long been a spiritual symbol, one of messages sent by divine power, and much lore surrounds this iconic, vibrant bird whose colors and voice evoke emotion, memories and meaning. Thirty Years of Cardinals Calling represents all the cardinal embodies, alongside Katherine Mercurio Gotthardt’s past thirty years of publishing poetry. These poems capture the author’s longing for something beautiful, lasting, transcendent through every stage of life. The pieces include those from journals, magazin
" In Thirty Years of Cardinals Calling, Katherine Mercurio Gotthardt contemplates how to live in a world we don’t recognize. Her poems make connections between earth and beyond, life and death, bird and human–a chasm lessened by creatures of beauty and symbolism like cardinals. She witnesses change over time in nature, in people, in relationships, in love, in health, even in dealing with an unexpected pandemic, and she finds refuge in home, in family, in art, in nature. As she faces a reckoning with mortali