History of Hurricanes

In her third collection of poems, Teresa Cader spins a complete universe of lyrical, probing verse that reaches out to readers and invites them to come inside. These poems deal with love and loss in particularly striking ways, as Cader uses rigorously controlled verse to express chaotic emotion. Stylistically adventurous, her work moves gracefully from intricate, slant-rhymed couplets to elliptical, lanky free verse. Geographically, she takes readers on a ride with stops in Kraków’s rock clubs, colonial New England’s sites, and shrines of contemporary Japan. The shadow of death, especially the loss of Cader’s mother, falls across many of her poems, but her verse reacts viscerally to such events, her emotion resounding out from each line to move through pain or desire.

Teresa Cader is on the faculty of the MFA program in creative writing at Lesley University and has taught at Emerson college and M.I.T. Her work has appeared in publications including The Atlantic, Harvard Review, Slate, and TriQuarterly. She is the author of two poetry collections: Guests, which was awarded the Norma Faber First Book Award by the Poetry Society of America, and The Paper Wasp, also published by Northwestern. She lives in Lexington, Massachusetts.