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Fear of Summer
by Wensday Carlton
with an introduction by
Alan Williamson
Praise for Fear of Summer :
“How
do we know / where harm begins?” Carlton asks in one of
these compelling and often heartbreaking narratives. Make no
mistake, this is a book about harm: the harm we visit on others
and on ourselves, the violence of the longing for love and the
ways we subvert that longing. Carlton chronicles a desperate
and true search: the imperative to fashion a self in a broken
world, and to find a place to survive. |
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—Kim Addonizio
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Wensday Carlton’s poems are fierce
in their confrontation of a culture whose inhabitants often “know
guilt the way some people know horses,” a world in which
we can never really grasp “where harm begins.” Family,
love, loss—she animates all the classic themes with a
violent clarity that’s always transformative, sometimes
shattering. These are poems to read—and read again—and
again.
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Two Poems from Fear
of Summer |
Legacy
Letter
to You, Unborn
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