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Psyche reshapes Greco-Roman mythology for contemporary readers as it traces an erotic femmeโs journey of self-discovery and heroism. Casey Catherine Mooreโs main character in Psyche cycles through the depths and heights of moods, madness, sex, and gender, and throughout her heroโs journey, Psyche creates a symphony from the many sounds and songs inside her soul and body. The poems draw inspiration from Ovid, Catullus, Hesiod, Homer, and Apuleius, as mythical deities and the natural world lead Psyche through her search for sturdiness to find her โbumblebeesโ grounded stillness in the hive within.โ
Cover Art by Shyama R. Kuver / Heart Over Crown
**ships the end of July via media mail from Washington, DC**
PRAISE FOR PSYCHE:
โEvery poem moves with an erotic pulse.โ
โRegie Cabico
โPsyche is a guidebook for all who search for meaning, struggle with mental illness, and strive to be understood and accepted for the full inclusion of who we are . . . In a world where diversity is used as a weapon of othering that leads to violence, Psyche recenters the poetic self as the original source of healing.โ
โCassie Premo Steele, PhD
โMooreโs heroic verse cycle beautifully calibrates new modes of lyric reflection and narrative relation to bring her readers into those most intimate spaces of her personally experienced, and our collectively shared, poetic pasts. And, most beautifully, and justly, the writing โsoulโ of this Psyche ultimately finds her sturdy rootedness in finally embracing herself as โmadโ psyche, and โqueerโ eros, and โfemmeโ corpus.โ
โRicardo Ortiz, PhD
โDeeply intimate and profoundly Classical, filled with raw emotion and erotic power, Moore has complete control over her medium.โ
โPaul Allen Miller
โHer reshapings of Roman myth give a fresh contemporary relevancy to familiar figures and forgotten fables that, even now, refuse to freeze in marble.โ
โDrew Pisarra
โWhile addressing a bipolar, psychic condition on one level, the poems also excavate the paradoxes and contradictions of being a human, embodied subject, granting the collection a deeply universal appeal.โ โHunter H. Gardner
โ[Psyche] allows us to see ourselves as wondrous, tumultuous beings, finding harmony in the cacophonies of the mental health journey and, ultimately, the human experience.โ
โMicah the Poet
โThank you, Casey Catherine Moore, for showing us the perennial truths of ancient wisdom. Psyche is โsilky, sexy, subversive language, / dripping in orange embers / of Classical candlelight fused / with new-aged electricity buzzing underneath.โโ
โKelly, Peebles, PhD
โPsyche is a testament to resilience and strength, making it a compelling and essential read.โ
โChris Thomas
Casey Catherine Moore (she/her) is a bipolar, bisexual poet, writing coach, and educator. She holds a Ph.D. in Comparative Literature from the University of South Carolina, where her research focused on Latin poetry, invective, and gender studies. Caseyโs current work as a poet, performer, teaching artist, and writing coach centers gender, sexuality, and dis/ability and can be found in various academic and creative publications. Casey founded the queer and neurodivergent open mic series Electric Euphoria, co-produces and co-hosts the queer poetry/comedy series Homo Stanzas, and hosts open mics at Busboys and Poets at the Brookland location in Washington, D.C. Casey draws inspiration from the madness and beauty within herself, those she works with, and all the glorious complexity in nature and all around us.
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