BOA Editions, Ltd., 2009

Cover illustration by Jonde Northcutt

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“Carpathia seems to me the truest, fullest expression of a soul in quest of its true home I’ve yet read. Cecilia Woloch receives the world right on her skin, responds to it with her whole physical being, and fearlessly, in all its mystery and beauty, and also in its sadness and cruelty and disappointment. There’s a headlong, rushing quality here, but a great sensual leisure, as well. It’s a wonderful book.”  —Mary Ann Taylor-Hall

“This is a gorgeous book by a poet who is passionately alive in the world.”  —Natasha Trethewey

Tupelo Press, 2008.

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Winner of the Snowbound Series Chapbook Award, selected by Marie Howe

“This beautifully produced winner of the Tupelo Snowbound Chapbook series (2007) is at once delicate and ferocious…The primarily lyric poems are laced with stunning images (of desire, of loss) that sear….There is a careful attention to the music in poems that are quietly formal and sound is primary. Woloch also manages the sense of line in prose poems — which constitute nearly a third of the book — inhabiting that mode fluidly, transendently.”  —Lynnell Edwards

 

 

BOA Editions, Ltd., 2003

Cover Illustration by Jonde Northcutt

Purchase Late HERE from BOA Editions Ltd., or HERE from Amazon.com

Late is driven by the alternating energies of prose poems and free verse. Woloch understands a person’s true relationships with family, friends and lovers arrive late–if at all. The exquisite pathos in these poems disclose Woloch’s abiding empathy for family, children, ex-lovers and strangers.

“Cecilia Woloch’s voice is both intense and precise. In so many of these poems, the forces of memory and longing are expertly brought under the sweet governance of craft and form.” — Billy Collins

 

Cahuenga Press, 2002

Cover Illustration by Jonde Northcutt

Temporarily out of print.

 

Tsigan is a book-length poetic meditation that intertwines the author’s personal journey of identity with the larger forces in the world that have shaped the Roma people’s fate and fortunes.

“Upon the blank page of her grandmother’s, and every gypsy’s, death, Cecilia Woloch writes her own story. Haunted. Unsettled. Gorgeously so.” —Ralph Angel

Cahuenga Press, 1997.

Tebot Bach, 2005.

Cover Illustration by Jonde Northcutt

A BookSense 76 Selection (2001)

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Sacrifice is hailed by poet-critic David St. John as “an extraordinary debut . . . The exquisite sensuality of these poems is matched only by [their] heart-breaking delicacy . . . Cecilia Woloch’s poems unveil the wreckage of love after what has been sacramental turns sacrificial . . . they are prayers spoken to, and on behalf of, a difficult world.”