Julie Carr, Author . Ahsahta $19 (120p) ISBN 978-1-934103-11-1
A sprawling experimental poem in 100 parts, Carr's third collection variously examines the ways violence permeates our daily lives. Part personal reflection, part research project, Carr (Equivocal
) echoes writers and thinkers from Dickinson...
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Julie Carr, Coffee House (Consortium, dist.), $16 (74p) ISBN 978-1-56689-251-3
A mother’s steep mental decline, a poet’s pregnancy, a daughter’s birth: these events resonate throughout the taut fourth collection from Carr (Equivocal). Yet Carr’s real achievement, in these spare pages, has less to do with story, autobiography,...
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Julie Carr. Omnidawn (UPNE, dist.), $17.95 trade paper (136) ISBN 978-1-890650-93-3
“In this document of my intentions I will create a puppet for my girl,” states Carr (100 Notes on Violence) in a filmic fifth collection that interrogates modernity, grief, and violence through the recurring motifs and stirring imagery of childhood...
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Julie Carr. Solid Objects (SPD, dist.), $16 trade paper (96p) ISBN 978-0-9844142-9-1
Through cinematic flickers of image, thought, and scene, Carr (Rag) splices short and untitled poem bits that skirt
the edge of being comprehensible into a continuously engaging whole. Carr is gifted at creating her own music—“Not by concrete but...
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Julie Carr. Omnidawn, $17.95 trade paper (208p) ISBN 978-1-63243-057-1
Poet, essayist, and translator Carr (Objects from a Borrowed Confession) asks poetry to be radically capacious in her ambitious 10th collection, to let in all the overlapping forces that constitute “real life.” Structured in symphonic movements,...
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