Catherine Graham Wins Fred Kerner Award for Æther
Congratulations to Catherine Graham for winning the 2022 Fred Kerner Book Award!
Judges’ Comments:
“Aether entwines in poetry as well as prose a deeply explored experience of surviving life and death as a daughter and as an adult. This book-length poetic essay gifts us with a personal account of the precious mundanities of healing along with the guilt and joy of being alive longer than our parents. With poetic delicacy counterpointed by plain speaking, Aether never shirks from the realities we must all face if we are to see the experience of living through to the end.”
“A poignant, arresting mix of hauntingly beautiful poetry and prose, Aether is an ode to family, grief and long-buried secrets; a contemplation on love, loss, longing and healing; and a stingingly real portrayal of survivor guilt. A compelling and profoundly moving journey through the simple joys of family ties that bind and the insidiousness of cancer and death that tear them apart, this indelible must-read masterfully captures the heart and then resonates long after in the mind and the soul.”
