For nearly half a century, Jared Carter has been quietly mapping the American heartland. Line by line, his poetry has shown us the landscape, sounded the voices, conjured the music, and tested the silence of the ever-changing and yet ever-constant Midwest that figures so prominently in the American story. And yet what we find in Carter s poetry isendlessly new. Here, in poems selected from his first five books, is the summer-long buzz of the cicada and the crack of the cue ball, the young rebel on his big Harley, and the YMCA secretary who backstrokes her way across the indoor pool. Here,...
For nearly half a century, Jared Carter has been quietly mapping the American heartland. Line by line, his poetry has shown us the landscape, sounded ...
Charlie the Chameleon goes to his first day of school, an exciting, sometimes scary experience, that helped him learn a lot about himself along the way.
Charlie the Chameleon goes to his first day of school, an exciting, sometimes scary experience, that helped him learn a lot about himself along the wa...
