Sometimes the weight rises and the telling wells up to be heard. These poems tell those stories.

"Lamplight is both opening and closing. Like any journey-woman on a quest to understand grief, Cathy Cain finds not truth so much as renewal. These poems are like compact, inescapable dreams, bruised with switchbacks that 'shift / over the edge,' where misery becomes a glow, a shine, and, finally, a blaze of love."

-David Biespiel, author of Republic Caf