"This book does all the things that great poetry is supposed to do; touch, challenge, inspire, activate the mind's eye, make happy and sad. And there's the added element of having a cohesive, cumulative work that functions as a captivating, dream-like autobiography (or concept album?)."
Jeff Duncan
"A sensualist of the tongue, Laurie Soriano crafts poems that translate the intimate music of relationship, desire, and frailty into compelling poems that treat love in all its guises, including the fierce of the self that keeps us alive."
Naomi Guttman, author of "Reasons for Winter" and "Wet Apples"
"Laurie Soriano's poems tread quietly then cut deeply. They are relaxed, yet sinewy. They are carefully measured, and then suddenly disarming. Laurie is a brilliant observer whose poems forcefully convey her keen insights."
Billy Steinberg, Songwriter
Jeff Duncan
"A sensualist of the tongue, Laurie Soriano crafts poems that translate the intimate music of relationship, desire, and frailty into compelling poems that treat love in all its guises, including the fierce of the self that keeps us alive."
Naomi Guttman, author of "Reasons for Winter" and "Wet Apples"
"Laurie Soriano's poems tread quietly then cut deeply. They are relaxed, yet sinewy. They are carefully measured, and then suddenly disarming. Laurie is a brilliant observer whose poems forcefully convey her keen insights."
Billy Steinberg, Songwriter
Catalina, published in September 2011, is available via Lummox Press, Amazon.com and Small Press Distribution. Ebook is available for Kindle at Amazon.com, for iPad on iTunes, for Nook at Barnes & Noble, and for the Sony Reader at Reader Store.
