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	Love in Three Voices Available from Blurb.com The soft spring light lay cupped within the peony. She bent to focus the camera and as the shutter clicked, she suddenly thought, "Here is a way to capture what I am trying to say in my love poems, the delicate patina of Love imaged and tangible. Here it is alive and visible in a flower. Perhaps this is how I can illustrate what I have written with another, or third, voice." LOVE IN THREE VOICES is a book of poems exploring the seductive, enchanting territory of Love. Poets and painters have struggled to capture Love's beauty and passion in paint and words, but in this book, Catharine Cool illuminates her poetry with images of flowers. This is an experiment that asks readers to reflect upon each flower's form and beauty and allow that image to interpret the emotions embodied in her poems.
	The Candle's Shadow Available from Amazon.com The immense and always present realm of childhood lies just beneath the surface of our consciousness, influencing our lives; the dear or troubling images forever held within the castle of our minds. Imagine yourself a child of five, sent away to boarding schools in a distant homeland, as the children of British Colonials in the 1930s were. You share a childhood haunted by uncertainty, loneliness, and change. Although the relationship I had with my beautiful and enigmatic mother was always difficult and troubling; with age and time, I discovered how rich and unusual were the gifts she offered in place of the motherly love I so craved.
	Each In His Lonely Night Available from Amazon.com This memoir of two young Australians is woven from my parents charming love letters. Written from her country schoolroom in the timber forest of West Australia and from his survey tents in the arid northern Outback, they draw one close with their appealing innocence. Joining the British Colonial service in Malaya, they lived through the 1920s and 30s in this romantic setting until the Japanese invasion changed their lives--sending my mother to Perth as a refugee, and my father to Thailand as a Prisoner of War. Their legacy is this spellbinding stream of letters of love, anxiety, infidelity, and guilt.
	Vivid Air: Travels to a Further Shore Available from Amazon.com Painter and poet, Catharine Cool has written this memoir as word paintings, where landscapes are the characters and color the thread that draws you across the fascinating cultures through which she and her family traveled. Her exciting life unfolds images that carry you from the South Seas to the Sahara, from Angkor Wat to the Taj Mahal, from Kathmandu to Zamboanga. A world few have encountered is brought to life by a brush that reveals with equal skill the dazzling kaleidoscope of Indian village festivals and the breathtaking beauty of the Himalayas.
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