Poetry. "To 'register the tongue's torque, ' Carrie Etter's poems show great skill and a willingness to take risks, both rare things in a 'first book.' This writing is simultaneously 'out there' and always also immediately present (in the most literal sense of 'with it'), an experience that is by turns centering and dizzying. It's quite a ride"--Ron Silliman. "Attention and compassion direct this finely chiseled work. Etter's quick eye focuses on precise moments of change and of emergence--those crucial moments where life ...
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Poetry. "To 'register the tongue's torque, ' Carrie Etter's poems show great skill and a willingness to take risks, both rare things in a 'first book.' This writing is simultaneously 'out there' and always also immediately present (in the most literal sense of 'with it'), an experience that is by turns centering and dizzying. It's quite a ride"--Ron Silliman. "Attention and compassion direct this finely chiseled work. Etter's quick eye focuses on precise moments of change and of emergence--those crucial moments where life gets really interesting--and sculpts them into wholes with an unusually attuned ear, an ear that catches always a subtle music and often a marvelous oddity--what an agile vocabulary! These are poems that wake you up when you thought you were already awake"--Cole Swensen
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