Mary Turzillo talks about her recently released poetry collection, Your Cat & Other Space Aliens: “The poems aren’t just about cats and aliens, although I use both to talk about people’s lives. The poems are about how people face life, love, and death without the easy cushion of philosophy. They are also about how wonder can suddenly lift you up and make your world radiant with meaning though a second earlier or a second later there was and will be no meaning. Or perhaps meaning is always there, but it takes a comet or a story or a prehistoric animal or a moon of Saturn to ignite that brand in the darkness.”
The book was recently released by vanZeno Press and is already garnering high praise from the likes of Bruce Boston, Joe Haldeman, and Darrell Schweitzer. Turzillo will have it available at Arisia in Cambridge, Massachusetts, in January.