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Reading Berryman to the Dog
Originally published in 2000, this new edition of Wendy Taylor Carlisle's debut collection explores the weight of memory, the risks of love, and the life that remains possible through loss. While paying homage to the American poet John Berryman, Carlisle's voice remains distinct in its approach and vision, while staying open to the world despite its pains and promises of failure. Reading Berryman to the Dog can now reach a new audience coming to terms with similar tragic themes while seeking a hopeful path forward.
Book Details
- Publisher: Belle Point Press
- Publish Date: Feb 7th, 2023
- Pages: 62
- Language: English
- Edition: undefined - undefined
- Dimensions: 9.00in - 6.00in - 0.15in - 0.23lb
- EAN: 9798985896565
- Categories: • American - General• Subjects & Themes - Death, Grief, Loss• Women Authors
About the Author
Carlisle, Wendy Taylor: - Wendy Taylor Carlisle was born in Manhattan, raised in Bermuda, Connecticut, and Ft. Lauderdale, Florida, and lives now in the Arkansas Ozarks in a house she built in 1980. She has an MA from the University of Arkansas and an MFA from Vermont College of Fine Arts. She is the author of On the Way to the Promised Land Zoo (Cyberwit, 2019), The Mercy of Traffic (Unlikely Books, 2019), and Discount Fireworks (Jacaranda Press, 2008). Chapbooks include They Went to the Beach to Play (Locofo Chaps, 2016), Chap Book (Platypus Press, 2016), Persephone on the Metro (MadHat Press, 2014), The Storage of Angels (Slow Water Press, 2008), and After Happily Ever After (Two River Chapbooks, 2003). Her collection The Mercy of Traffic won the Phillip H. McMath Post-Publication Award.
Praise for this book
Praise for Wendy Taylor Carlisle'sReading Berryman to the Dog:
"The poems of Wendy Taylor Carlisle are vibrant, original, intelligent, tough, funny, and sharp as a first-time blade. I admire them utterly. They do not contain a single extra word. They have the power to transport, to remind, in all the best senses of that word, re-mind to uplift and enlarge the mental faculties to a finer degree of sensibility. . . . I appreciate the heat and summer here. That's one lucky dog."-Naomi Shihab Nye, former chancellor of the Academy of American Poets" 'The body stores it all, ' writes Wendy Taylor Carlisle. In this strong collection, the mother brakes at a stop sign and flings her arm across the child's chest, the dead 'never lay their fingers on a sunburned arm, ' and the lover 'invade[s] her nostrils as a hot, metallic smell.' From classical reference to personal recollection, the poems in Reading Berryman to the Dog are vivid and immediate."-Penelope Scambly Schott, author of Waving Fly Swatters at Angels
Praise forWendy Taylor Carlisle: "The history, deep south surroundings, and personal convictions of poet Wendy Taylor Carlisle are a collective wonder to behold."-Gabriel Ricard, Drunk Monkeys review of The Mercy of Traffic
"The poems of Wendy Taylor Carlisle are vibrant, original, intelligent, tough, funny, and sharp as a first-time blade. I admire them utterly. They do not contain a single extra word. They have the power to transport, to remind, in all the best senses of that word, re-mind to uplift and enlarge the mental faculties to a finer degree of sensibility. . . . I appreciate the heat and summer here. That's one lucky dog."-Naomi Shihab Nye, former chancellor of the Academy of American Poets" 'The body stores it all, ' writes Wendy Taylor Carlisle. In this strong collection, the mother brakes at a stop sign and flings her arm across the child's chest, the dead 'never lay their fingers on a sunburned arm, ' and the lover 'invade[s] her nostrils as a hot, metallic smell.' From classical reference to personal recollection, the poems in Reading Berryman to the Dog are vivid and immediate."-Penelope Scambly Schott, author of Waving Fly Swatters at Angels
Praise forWendy Taylor Carlisle: "The history, deep south surroundings, and personal convictions of poet Wendy Taylor Carlisle are a collective wonder to behold."-Gabriel Ricard, Drunk Monkeys review of The Mercy of Traffic