Leaving Texas: Poems by Catherine Blair

by Catherine Blair

Catherine is a confessional poet of unflinching honesty. She expresses sentiment but is not sentimental. She knows that life can be hard and hard to bear. She brings us Texas, physical, emotional, its "unexpected beauty" (Brent Armendinger). She knows this from her own experience and she informs us with irony and humor in these remarkable poems.

108 pages, Paperback

Published April 28, 2013

About the author

Catherine Blair (a.k.a. Cordia Byers) grew up in Texas, were she spent her high school years writing romances for her friends. She received her Ph.D. in neuroscience from Cornell University and currently studies opiate addiction. No one else thinks that the pun between "heroin addiction" and "heroine addiction" is as funny as she does. Catherine is a member of the Romance Writers of America and lives with her husband in San Diego, California.