Publisher's synopsis
‘Race against Time vigorously and clearly apprehends the facts of mortality while eschewing the conceit of human centrality. Even if hardly prolific, Lee Cataldi is nonetheless one of our wisest and most striking poetic voices, evoking a spontaneous, unforced engagement with life and death’. (McLaren, Greg. ‘Race against Time.’ Southerly 58.4 (1998): 219.
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Lee Cataldi was born in Sydney in 1942 to an Anglo-Australian mother and Italian father. She completed a Bachelor of Arts from the University of Sydney in 1962 and then a Bachelor of Letters from Oxford University in 1968. She became a high school teacher and later a linguist, lecturing on Indigenous Australian languages. Her first book of poetry, Invitation to a Marxist Lesbian Party was published in 1978. She won the Kenneth Slessor Prize for Poetry in 1999 for Race Against Time.
