On Sunday, May 1, Baton Rouge Gallery’s Sundays@4 series is honored to welcome Catharine Savage Brosman for a selection of readings from her newest book of poems, Arm in Arm, by the Mercer University Press. Brosman will be available for questions after the readings.
As with all Sundays@4 presentations, this event is free and open for all to enjoy.
A lovely review of the new work by Catharine can be found HERE. In it, writer Danny Heitman from The Advocate writes:
“In the title poem of her new book, she recalls strolling with her husband, Patric, as a young couple in Paris, and then, much later in life, walking in London, “both slightly lame,” yet celebrating “older love, the sort that won’t give up.” It’s a lovely evocation of how relationships evolve, concluding poignantly as Brosman contemplates touching Patric’s extended arm again. He died in 2017.”
Catharine Savage Brosman, known widely for her poetry, criticism, and essays, is Professor Emerita of French at Tulane University. She is the author of fourteen poetry collections, of which six appeared at LSU Press. Her latest are A Memory of Manaus (2017), Chained Tree, Chained Owls (2020), Clara’s Bees (2021), and Arm in Arm (2022). Short fiction of hers appeared in 2019 under the title An Aesthetic Education and Other Stories. Her fields of scholarly specialization are French literary history and criticism and American regional literary history and biography. Her studies on American literature are Louisiana Creole Literature (2013), Southwestern Women Writers and the Vision of Goodness (2016), Louisiana Poets: A Literary Guide (2019), with Olivia McNeely Pass; and Mississippi Poets: A Literary Guide (2020). A native of Colorado and a current resident of Houston, she lived nearly forty years in New Orleans and considers Louisiana to be her literary home.
Brosman poetry book list
N. B. This list includes four chapbooks (short books).
Watering (Athens: University of Georgia Press, 1972)
Abiding Winter (Florence, Ky: R. L. Barth, 1983) [chapbook]
Journeying to Canyon de Chelly (Baton Rouge: LSU Press, 1990)
Passages (Baton Rouge: LSU Press, 1996)
The Swimmer and Other Poems (Edgewood, Ky: R.L. Barth, 2000)
Places in Mind (Baton Rouge: LSU Press, 2000)
Petroglyphs: Poems and Prose
(Thibodaux: Jubilee: A Festival of the Arts, Nicholls State University, 2003)
The Muscled Truce (Baton Rouge: LSU Press, 2003)
Range of Light (Baton Rouge: LSU Press, 2007)
Breakwater (Macon: Mercer University Press, 2009)
Trees in a Park (Thibodaux: Chicory Bloom Press, 2010)
Under the Pergola (Baton Rouge: LSU Press, 2011).
On the North Slope (Macon: Mercer University Press, 2012)
On the Old Plaza (Macon: Mercer University Press, 2014)
A Memory of Manaus (Macon: Mercer University Press, 2017)
Chained Tree, Chained Owls: Quintains (Columbia: Green Altar / Shotwell Publishing, 2020)
Clara’s Bees (UK: Little Gidding Press, 2021).
Arm in Arm (Macon: Mercer University Press, 2022).
Mercer University Press, established in 1979, has published more than 1,600 books in the genres of Southern Studies, Biography & Memoir, Fiction, Poetry, Religion, Philosophy, History, Civil War History, African American Studies, and Appalachian Studies. Publishing authors from across the United States and abroad, Mercer University Press focuses on topics related to the culture of the South. The reputation of the Press significantly enhances the academic environment of Mercer University and carries the name of Mercer and Macon, Georgia, throughout the world.