Reflective, graceful, and understated, Pond’s images accumulate power through restraint and suggestion. As the collection unfolds, the speaker journeys toward adulthood, risking intimacy and attempting to undo her embedded impulses toward silence and absorption. She is perpetually in transit, with long drives, flights, and train rides-moving most often between the city and the foothills of the Adirondack Mountains. Saturated by her surroundings and permeated by the emotional lives of those close to her, the speaker struggles with feelings of displacement, trauma, and separateness. A queer coming-of-age, this collection is a candid exploration of sexual identity, family dynamics, and friendships that elude easy categorization, offering insight on the ambiguous nature of identity.
Sexual identity, female friendship, and queer experiences of loveįraught with obsession, addiction, and unrequited love, Catherine Pond’s Fieldglass immerses us in the speaker’s transition from childhood to adulthood.
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