The three works of poetry that constitute Tribunal were written in the current context of seemingly ubiquitous warfare and the specter of unabashed neo-fascism, ethno-nationalism, and—especially
"In a book rich with formal variety and lyric intensity, Carr takes up economic inequality, gendered violence, losses both personal and national, and the crisis of the body within all of these forces.
Evolved from the poet's observation of the daily practice of Tai Chi Sword, these poems evoke the fluidity of martial art practice, the motion of Chinese brushstroke painting, as well as the shifting
"Subterranean opens the rhetoric of the elegiac form, creating a site for grieving that transcends a focus on the death of the father. These elegies juxtapose the collapse of hyper-economies against t
"Jane Tokugawa leads a U.S. delegation from the Center[s] for Disease Control to investigate a new retroviral gene therapy--Hratthnâif ("fast knife")--approved in Iceland, a shining nation churning ou
Ghost Of is a mourning song, not an exorcism or un-haunting of that which haunts, but attuned attention, unidirectional reaching across time, space, and distance to reach loved ones, ancestors, and st
