Ahadada Books is pleased to present Secret Kitty by Catherine Daly. Secret Kitty is the eighth online chapbook available from Ahadada Books and the fourth of 2006.

Catherine Daly is a former artist in residence at Joshua Tree National Park.  She is author of DaDaDa (Salt Publishing, 2003), Locket (Tupelo Press, 2005), and the forthcoming Paper Craft (eMoria Books).  Her poetry is included in the anthology Intersections: Innovative Poetry in Southern California (Green Integer, 2004).

Catherine Daly was valedictorian of her class at St. Teresa of Avila High School in a small blue collar city in the American Midwest. An Illinois Scholar at Trinity College and Merit Fellow at Columbia University, Daly has worked as a technical architect, officer in a Wall Street investment bank, engineer supporting the space shuttle orbiter, software developer for motion picture studios, and teacher. She lives in Los Angeles.

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Praise for Catherine Daly

Throwing words at the page in avant garde exuberance, hyperreal and exotic imagery profuse, wild splashes of color and light, an olla podrida both clashing and harmonious, gives us more than a bit to think about. Into this world of alchemical wordplay we are thrown without as much as a life preserver, thrashing desperately for solid footing. But finding solid footing is not only a big mistake but the gravest of errors.
    —CB SMith, Barfing Frog

Daly rewrites as reading, as performance, as decoding, recoding, and encoding. This post-language poetry is devoted to sound play and pleasure.
    —Salt Publishing

Praise for Catherine Daly's earlier works, Locket and DaDaDa

Cavernous and electric, DaDaDa unfolds as a hypnotically twisted love tome investigating the r/elation between language systems and the erotics of communication. Plotting the truncated lives of letters, as mistresses, matrices, vessels, vials, viols, vile induces, indices, Catherine Daly’s passionate tripartite tour de force rages with linguistic virtuosity as a “cross-stitched sampler” of contemporary culture, “hot sync simulacra,” literary heresies.
    —Adeena Karasick

Seldom is such a commodious pathway opened with a first book. It is, as its author says, “Huge toroid / experiments.” She’s right about that; look up “toroid.” Catherine Daly is the “epideictic girl” of her verse’s universe. Any book that places Georgia O’Keeffe in the same neighborhood with Ann Corio has a thing or two to tell us about telling, about “deep regional feeling,” about aboutness.
    —Aldon L. Nielsen