BOOK
Train Romance: Poems and Images
by Dr. Ken Silvestri, Cat Weaver and Natasha Rabin
Publisher: BookBaby (paperback)
January 26, 2022
In this collection of poems and images, Cat Weaver, Ken Silvestri, and Natasha Rabin explore the enchantment trains can bring. Trains share in the big and small events of people's lives, and remembered moments in them are depicted here as haunting, bittersweet, quietly nostalgic, and gently comic.
Endorsements
This amazing book, Train Romance, gives us three different approaches to the lure of trains.
In poetry by Ken Silvestri, Natasha Rabin, and Cat Weaver, we are brought into their individual worlds and their unique fascination with trains. Ken Silvestri's photographs add another artistic dimension that allows us to see trains with new eyes.
Maria Mazziotti Gillan
Recipient, American Book Award for All That Lies Between US
The universal experience of train travel is captured with nostalgia, humor, sadness and exquisite detail in Train Romance. Anyone who has ever leaned their forehead against the cool glass of a rushing train as it rolls through a lonely countryside, will smile in recognition at this lovely collection.
Vince McKewin
Writer of eleven Hollywood screenplays, including Fly Away Home
Like the trains they take as subject, the poems in this collection carry the reader along a journey. The scenery changes, characters come and go. From Ken Silvestri's nostalgia for a train-rich childhood, Natasha Rabin's world travels, and Cat Weaver's excursion into literature (imagining Anna Karenina dressing for her fateful encounter with a locomotive) trains appear in a variety of functions and facets. Like an actual train journey, these poems leave us changed and enriched by the experience.
Allison Stone
Author of Caught in the Myth (NYQ), Dazzle (Jacar Press), Ordinary Magic (NYQ)