When Louisa Pierce and Emily Ward design a home, their goal is to make it appear as though the person has lived there for a long time. As the designer for Hollywood powerhouses, supermodels, and rock stars like Brie Larson, Leonardo DiCaprio, Dakota Johnson, Lily Aldridge and Caleb Followill of Kings of Leon, Karen Elson, and many more, Pierce & Ward's rooms tell stories and invite anyone in them to look closer at cherished pieces, textures, and an inimitably artful blend of classic and fanciful touches. Stately striped wallpaper mixes with French florals. Brass lion head bookends sit beside trays inlaid with glinting mother-of-pearl. Milk-glass globes hang in trios down hallways like glowing moons to guide one's path. Humble pieces from eBay and lovingly worn textiles mix with museum-quality art and family photos. There is a beauty in the unfolding of a room that takes the eye dancing from one piece to the next, swirling over velvets of peach and gold, gliding over glass and marble and stopping to take in the homeowner's precious sentimental favourites. This book will teach readers about organised abundance and un-gaudy decadence, with a dash of restraint for good measure. This book is an evocative and inspiring ode to the art of more.

A Tale of Interiors

Pierce, Catherine

Pierce, Louisa

Ward, Emily

Reference

Rizzoli

“In ‘Love Poem to the Phrase Let’s Get Coffee,’ Catherine Pierce writes ‘I adore your elegant manner, one hand on the car door, the other on the ass.’ She writes with her own tricky elegance, one that acknowledges yet adores language’s self-serving grace. Pierce deftly blends repetition with sophisticated syntax, and a sinister wit glows inside the emotional wisdom of her vision. Animals of Habit is an exhilarating book.”―Andrew Hudgins “If I didn’t know the poet personally, I’d think the name Catherine Pierce was a pseudonym, for these poems are not merely edgy, they are razor-sharp-they disembowel. What an extraordinary command of structure, persona, and humor this poet has! In one fell swoop, she has re-invented the ‘love’ poem and eschewed both pretentiousness and the anti-intellectual by being always smart and entertaining.”―Kathy Fagan

Animals of Habit (Wick Chapbook Series 3)

Literature & Fiction

Poetry

The Kent State University Press

Winner of the 2007 Saturnalia Books Poetry Prize, Selected by John Yau Catherine Pierce’s debut, Famous Last Words, is a love letter to life, poetry, and all things American. Beginning with a series of literal love poems (to the word “lonesome”, to blank space, to doo-wop, to fear, etc.), Pierce whisks the reader on a cross-country road trip (both literally and figuratively) that takes a tangential spree into a series of genre films and ends with gallows humor in the re-imagining of the events surrounding the famous last words of icons like Billy the Kid, Marie Antoinette, Isadora Duncan, and Pancho Villa. From start to finish, Pierce’s book is a delight to the senses, a playful, nostalgic dance that ends with the reader wanting more.

Famous Last Words

Saturnalia Books

In Catherine Pierce's most peculiar second collection, we enter a world of longing and destruction, of death and rebirth, and of wonderfully odd girls--girls who read too much, who drink too much or not enough, who craft necklaces from earwigs and wring nostalgia from Spiro Agnew. These are poems of questions and restlessness, but also of answers of a sort. As Beth Ann Fennelly writes, "[t]he big themes here--self identity, desire, escape--are illuminated with clarity, scored musically, and enlivened with wit. The Girls of Peculiar is a fabulous book."

Girls of Peculiar

At the heart of Catherine Pierce's much-anticipated third book, a powerful tornado churns, spinning out poems of disaster and love, of sirens and wrecked landscapes, of warnings heeded and not. These poems stare down fear from the inside, and ask what it means to walk straight into a splintering world both profane and sacred.

The Tornado Is the World

<div>The poems in Catherine Pierce's new Danger Days celebrate our planet while also bearing witness to its collapse. In poems steeped deep in the 21st century, Pierce weaves superblooms and Legos, gun violence and ghosts, glaciers and contaminant masks, urging us to look closely at both the horror and beauty of our world. As Pierce writes in "Planet," "I'm trying to see this place even as I'm walking through it."</div>

Danger Days

Saturnalia

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