Carolyn Guinzio writes moving poems of great delicacy, balancing opposites and adjacents at once. She also writes a kind of sentence that switches mid-run like a train on its tracks, re-casting its syntax without so much as a how-do-you-do. Through the curtain of birds and insects, or the scrim made of the lives of unadorned citizens, she allows us to "press so close to the unfamiliar" without making it any less strange. This is a gifted poet's gifted first book.- Susan Wheeler "Nothing ever travels more / than half-way away," are lines in Carolyn Guinzio's wonderful first book. The tug away...
Carolyn Guinzio writes moving poems of great delicacy, balancing opposites and adjacents at once. She also writes a kind of sentence that switches mid...