The Girl Who Talked to the Moon

About the Book

Christine Candland’s poems in The Girl Who Talked to the Moon invite the reader into a world where characters living on the moon find romance, winged horses travel to the Waterfalls of Time, and Catharina, a mysterious character, guards the powerful ruby which balances the crescent.

Other poems in the collection are about self-reflection while walking along avenues, making sense of where we are going, a startled look at the past and the presence of knowing; finding community in a coffee shop, while Muca’s muses dance across Pont Neuf, Tycho’s star spins across the sky and Shakespeare’s Cressida waits for her love Troilus.

Christine has woven compelling stories from mythology, legend and human experience into a memorable collection.

About the Author

Christine Candland has published two collections of poetry. In her first book, When Snow Walks In, Foreword Reviews stated, “Often celebrating the everyday, these blank verse poems are concise, autobiographical, and rife with lingering emotions. Poems including Desert Paint, Faces, and Chasing the Unicorn translate works of art into poetic lines. This lyric impulse leads to the entries’ moods, characters, and settings being conveyed with ease, as in Before Daybreak: Somewhere between dawn and mischief after turning on the heat a roar of endless apologies sinks down into the carpet.” “There are beautiful bits of wisdom buried in these poems, as when she writes “I wanted to experience life but not be hurt by it” in Sand Dunes. The poet’s imagery is vibrant and engaging. Candland is enamored with the tiniest of details, but she also insists “Perfection is numbing…it has to be raspy and needling and oxidizing or else how can I feel.” Kirkus Reviews. “Candland’s free-verse, narrative work has a crisp, clean style that relies on concrete nouns and sensory details. Readers meet interesting characters including the title character Snow, a mysterious woman observed in a diner: “Long legs, suede brown coat, black straight skirt with kick pleat.” Christine brings works of visual art alive. As a collection of light verse, this volume is superlative.” Blue Ink Review. In her most recent collection, Paris Spoken Here, U.S. Review of Books stated, “As exceptional poetry compilations often do, Candland’s work masterfully transports readers away from the day-to-day hustle of their daily lives, acting as a means of replenishing the reader’s life with color and vibrance.” In addition to her poetry, Candland has published two novels: Topaz Woman, a National Best Books Award Finalist and Pleiades Rising, an Eric Hoffer Book Award Finalist. Christine’s poems have been featured in California Quarterly, Altadena Review and she was nominated for a Pushcart Prize. She was raised in Maryland and attended University of New Mexico, Southwestern School of Law and UCLA Writers Extension Program.