Poetry. Carrie Shipers' CAUSE FOR CONCERN traverses a landscape of assorted disasters such as overwork and layoffs, the ill-fated explorer, circus mishaps, nuclear disaster and radiation but at its heart is the personal disaster of spousal illness. While a spouse might avow faith in the sentiment of love in sickness and in health, the practice of such faith might come undone when faced with the reality of the ravages of illness on the stricken body of the beloved, alongside the caregiving mate who "could love/ her] husband but distrust his body, / expect betrayal at every turn." Full of...
Poetry. Carrie Shipers' CAUSE FOR CONCERN traverses a landscape of assorted disasters such as overwork and layoffs, the ill-fated explorer, circus mis...
The poems in Family Resemblances unfold in a series of overlapping narratives in which characters struggle with injury and healing, violence and fear, courage and forgiveness. Throughout this beautiful volume, the multiple meanings of family--whether formed by biology or choice--are questioned through careful attention to the often conflicting notions of connection, inheritance, absence, and escape. The truths these poems find are much like life itself: complex, provisional, and rich.
The poems in Family Resemblances unfold in a series of overlapping narratives in which characters struggle with injury and healing, violence and fe...
