PraIse for Animals I Have Killed
THIS CHAPBOOK CREATES
a world where The Holy Spirit is “dark moving water,” where even though any flaw has grace, “it’s hard not to be Judas-minded.” Like her grandfather’s tollekniv, these poems strike deep to find the heartwood at, in this case, an illumination of the spirit. –Allen Braden, author of A Wreath of Down and Drops of Blood
The vivid and musically compelling
poems in Lauren Carlson’s prize-winning chapbook locate both dread and awe in the physical world of milking goats, taking out garbage, carving wood, giving birth–the business of living. The wounds that come with living lead Carlson to question God, but, as she reminds us, we must “remember to pay attention.” These poems teach us to pay attention.” –Athena Kildegaard
There is a balance
between firm and tender in these poems– the strong images, the calm moment of the child’s cut skin, the cracking of the egg. The bodies/people in these poems seem at once indestructible and incredibly fragile. Lovely. –Angela Voras-Hills
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