Böcker av Julie Carr

"Julie Carr's most intimate book to date, The Underscore, is dedicated to two of Carr's foundational teachers, the dancer Nancy Stark Smith and the poet Jean Valentine, both of whom died in 2020. Elegiac and tender-at times erotic at other times bitter-these poems explore the passions of friendship and love for the living and the dead. Reaching at once toward the "ghost companions in the thicket" and to the beloveds who still "pulse with activity," The Underscore's sonically intricate poems ultimately yearn toward a public intra-action, a sense of expanded encounter, what Stark Smith called "overlapping kinespherees." There, in the "green, green underscore," "the darkened / cloth / changes / hands.""--

"Back in print, Carr's powerful poems seek out and face violence and its counterforces. Julie Carr obsessively researches instances of intimate terrorism, looking everywhere from Walt Whitman and Emily Dickinson to lists of phobias and weapon-store catalogs. She searches for what can be learned from the statistics, the statements by and about rapists and killers, the websites of hate groups, and the capacity for cruelty that lies within all of us. 100 Notes on Violence is a diary, a document, and a dream log of the violence that grips America and devastates so many. But Carr also offers a layered and lyric tribute to violence's counterforces: love, commonality, and care. Her unflinching "notes" provoke our minds and burrow into our emotions, leading us to confront our fears and our own complicity"--

Poetry that stands at the crossroads between the real and the supernatural, the actual and the imaginary

At once civil lyric and lament crying beyond civility, spiraling with kinetic intensity, a 21st century feminist book-length aria

The central subject in Julie Carr's debut poem collection is marriage. Intimacy is examined, not only in terms of the erotic, the quotidian, and the contractual, but also in terms of the intertextual: the pact between reader and writer and the blending of texts that results.