Whosoever Has Let a Minotaur Enter Them, or a Sonnet?

Is there such a thing as sin? How does one fall out of a marriage, and back in love with the world? These fairy tales are for the heartbreakers as much as the heartbroken, for those smitten with wanderlust, for those who still believe it’s possible to make the world we are living in the world we wish to live in.

A singular flow of brilliance, Emily Carr’s swiftly moving sequence of love poemsdivorce poems, reallyengages the problem of romance in an age of reality television, celebrity self-help, smart phones, student loans, and men who, for all they love you, don’t know how to love you anymore.

Carr’s swell of gorgeous psychedelia is presented in a lavish book-object befitting the work’s interconnected, page-blurring sweep of line upon line:

between her thighs, the buffalo holding sky.
saucers of mountain sway. deities spill, shining & suffering
not forgetting we can’t everwhose fury sings like eagles
skeletons unlean from fruit trees, falling
like white gunsmoke, we want/to be here. listen.
the wind has blown all the birds from our hair.

Emily Carr lives in Oregon. She’s passionate about the rediscovery of Mississippi poet besmilr brigham, the sexual politics of meat, the limits of Achilles’ honesty & the problem of Chaucer’s spring, unposted love letters, cannibal chickens & a ship too late to save the drowning witch.

Carr has been named a finalist in seven national book contests, including the 2011 National Poetry Series. Her second collection,13 Ways of Happily: Books 1 & 2 (Parlor Press 2011), was chosen by Cole Swensen as the winner of the 2009 New Measures Poetry Prize. Carr has received fellowships from the Vermont Studio Center, the Virginia Center for the Creative Arts, the Jack Kerouac House, Writers in the Heartland, and Camac Centre d’Art. The poet received her BA from the University of Missouri, her MFA from the University of North Carolina-Wilmington, and her Ph.D. from the University of Calgary in 2010. She is currently the director of the Master of Fine Arts in Creative Writing at Oregon State University-Cascades.