LETTERS TO PETRARCH – UNICORN PRESS 2015
Letters to Petrarch, published by Unicorn Press in 2015, is a handmade hardback chapbook. These epistolary poems respond to the work of Francesco Petrarca, the 14th-century Italian poet. In a series of letters and prayers corresponding to the canonical hours, this book recounts a single day and meditates on young love and loss. Features Pushcart Prize nominated poems "Lauds," "Vespers," and "Vigils."
Letters to Petrarch Live audio companion available by request.
INTERVIEWS AND REVIEWS
BookWoman 2nd Thursday interview with Cindy Huyser
Fort Worth Weekly's Xs & Os with Sarah Angle
Yellow Chair Review, review: Letters to Petrarch by Eric A. Cline
PRAISE FOR LETTERS TO PETRARCH
"Even as this speaker navigates the acute suffering of a love lost, she does so with a precise hand. It is clear Cure has crafted these poems with attention to each detail, each word, each broken line and empty space. It is the poet's steadiness, her delicate, measured spareness, that allows us to enter and invites us to share the speaker's experience, which is ultimately not just one of loneliness, but of calling out. This is a tender exploration of what it means to be transformed by grief."
– Rachel Marie Patterson, editor of Radar Poetry