Carrie Etter
Michelle Boisseau's Among the Gorgons (U of Tampa, 2016)
Favourite passages from Michelle's last book following her death from cancer last year: Beneath a spread of stars we found ourselves side...
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Carrie Etter
- Jan 21, 2018
- 1 min
Paul Celan: 70 Poems (trans. Michael Hamburger) (Persea, 2013), second selection
at times when only the void stood between us we got all the way to each other. end of 'So many constellations' A nothing we were, are,...
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Carrie Etter
- Jan 17, 2018
- 1 min
Paul Celan: 70 Poems (trans. Michael Hamburger) (Persea, 2013), first selection
It seemed time to return to Paul Celan's work, and I couldn't find my previous edition of his poems, so I purchased this one, as it was...
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Carrie Etter
- Dec 22, 2017
- 1 min
This time of the year
I think today marks the latest in December I've ever decorated our Christmas tree. My mother often bought me ornaments as presents, and...
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Carrie Etter
- Dec 19, 2017
- 1 min
Beyond the Sea by Elsa Cross (trans. Anamaría Crowe Serrano, Shearsman Books, 2016), second selectio
More fine passages from this splendid collection: ...the sound of the first cicada now fitfully cutting the silence of dawn. Words wanted...
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Carrie Etter
- Dec 17, 2017
- 1 min
Beyond the Sea by Elsa Cross (trans. Anamaría Crowe Serrano, Shearsman, 2016), first selection
I've been enjoying Elsa Cross's work for some years now, thanks to Anamaría Crowe Serrano and Shearsman Books. Here are some favourite...
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Carrie Etter
- Dec 11, 2017
- 1 min
Erin Belieu's Slant Six (Copper Canyon, 2014)
I have fewer passages to quote with this collection because many of these poems' power comes from the way they operate as a whole;...
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Carrie Etter
- Dec 6, 2017
- 2 min
JL Williams' After Economy (Shearsman, 2017), second selection
A continuing selection of my favourite passages from JL Williams' third collection: Dark, this desire for space. The wasteland stained...
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Carrie Etter
- Dec 4, 2017
- 2 min
JW Williams' After Economy (Shearsman, 2017), first selection
I liked Williams' first collection, Condition of Fire, and published two selections of passages on my old Blogspot blog. Indeed, she...
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Carrie Etter
- Nov 20, 2017
- 1 min
A smash review of Hometown
This weekend I was thrilled to learn of a new review of my pamphlet of flash fictions, Hometown, by Michael Loveday in Flash: The...
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Carrie Etter
- Nov 17, 2017
- 1 min
Cole Swensen's On Walking On (Nightboat Books, 2017), third selection
Herewith a third and final round of passages! ...a green hillside in Gunhill as evening fell just as it was falling somewhere else as it...
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Carrie Etter
- Nov 15, 2017
- 2 min
Cole Swensen's On Walking On (Nightboat, 2017), second selection
A second selection of favourite passages: People walking, many tonight, and almost in rhythm, as if it were a way of collectively...
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Carrie Etter
- Nov 10, 2017
- 2 min
Cole Swensen's On Walking On (Nightboat, 2017), first selection
I'm relishing Cole Swensen's new book. Here is a first array of favourite passages: The first walk: the first line: that so alone am I...
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Carrie Etter
- Oct 6, 2017
- 1 min
W.S. Graham's Implements in Their Places (Faber, 1977), 2 of 2
Here's a second run of favourite passages from this splendid book: Do not intrude too much Into the message you carry.... from 'Johann...
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Carrie Etter
- Oct 3, 2017
- 1 min
W.S. Graham's Implements in Their Places, 1 of 2 (Faber, 1977)
I've relished this book; here are some favourite passages. What is the language using us for? Said Malcolm Mooney moving away Slowly over...
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Carrie Etter
- Oct 1, 2017
- 1 min
Eleanor Rees' Riverine (Gatehouse, 2015)
At the Free Verse Book Fair in London yesterday, I bought more than I should have, as usual, and began reading this splendid pamphlet on...
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Carrie Etter
- Sep 3, 2017
- 1 min
Frank Lloyd Wright Home, Oak Park
We had a wonderful tour of Frank Lloyd Wright's home, studio, and houses he designed in the nearby area yesterday. Here are some images...
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Carrie Etter
- Aug 21, 2017
- 1 min
Scar warmly reviewed again!
I'm sure I've never had a chapbook as widely reviewed as Scar, and as I think/hope it's my best work to date, I'm dearly heartened by it....
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Carrie Etter
- Aug 16, 2017
- 2 min
The Beauty of the Husband by Anne Carson (Cape, 2001)
My Anne Carson reading group here in Bath continues, and The Beauty of the Husband is next up, so here are some of my favourite passages....
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Carrie Etter
- Jul 18, 2017
- 1 min
Dystopic Poetry
Late into my research and writing of the poems about the effects of climate change in Illinois in my next collection, The Weather in...
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