There is a brilliant subtlety to this witnessing, a knowing tenderness that explores our relationships with the natural world and those we love. These poems exalt the moment and explore the geography of memory, with a spare clarity that evokes our finest lyric poets’ imaginations.

–Lee Herrick, author of Gardening Secrets of the Dead

Because she’s honed the art of looking inward and outward at the same time in Raft of Days, Catherine Abbey Hodges writes poems that manage to be small and also large, quiet while eventful, realistic yet reverent, both evocative and clear. Her poetry produces more than pleasure. It is an antidote to despair.

–Susan Cohen, author of A Different Wakeful Animal

In Catherine Abbey Hodges’ second collection of poems, … the complexities of faith huddle close to the ordinary work of cooking, making lists, and keeping a steady breath. This is an authentic and beautiful book.

–Emma Trelles, author of Tropicalia