Publisher's Synopsis
This fascinating interlinked collage of poems paints vignettes of the world's big cats-leopards, caracals, cheetahs-against a ghostly backdrop of human family, relationships, and survival alone and together. Interconnectedness runs all through Cauldron of Hisses: parent to child, poem to poem, hunter to sustenance, a world in which, through these ever-turning flashcards of poems, "each builds a structure, /finds society."
-Amy Miller, author of Astronauts and The Trouble with New England Girls
-Paul E Nelson, Author of American Sentences and A Time Before Slaughter: Featuring Pig War & Other Songs of Cascadia "So much depends on posturing/in cats and humans." In this series of linked poems Penelope Moffet, her domestic cats and their counterparts in the wild shape-shift back and forth-all of them "alone unless tamed and almost/never tamed." Cauldron of Hisses is full of surprises and delight.
-Cynthia Anderson, author of Full Circle and The Missing Peace
