For Today: Poems (Barataria Poetry)

Literature & Fiction

Hembree, Carolyn

Poetry

LSU Press

<p>Carolyn Hembree's second poetry collection, Rigging a Chevy into a Time Machine and Other Ways to Escape a Plague, was selected by Neil Shepard for the 2015 Trio Award and by Stephanie Strickland for the 2015 Marsh Hawk Press Rochelle Ratner Memorial Award. The book is a sequence of poems arranged like a truck owner's manual. Set in rural Appalachia, "a truck up on concrete blocks" functions as time machine for V. Cleb, an accursed wanderer trapped and liberated by the limits of his world. When spiritual and material realms commingle, visions of cosmic significance are revealed. Biblical cadences, elliptical phrasing, and a deep-rooted vernacular distinguish the voice of these poems. "Through wormhole after wormhole," the book inscribes a landscape visceral, haunted, afflicted, afflicting.</p>

Rigging a Chevy into a Time Machine and Other Ways to Escape a Plague

Trio House Press

Poetry. The title character of SKINNY leaves the South and a beloved, dying matriarch for New York City, a "far-off island dream." Through an expansive dramatis personae, the poems offer polyphonic responses to harrowing encounters. Here is a life at once immediate and recognizable yet imbued with nostalgia: silent film intertitles, biplane transmissions, the broken Welsh of ancestors. This collection incorporates ekphrastic works, prose poems, dramatic monologues, odes, elegies, a pastoral, and a word problem, among other free verse experiments. Despite familiar allusions and forms, the work is otherworldly—regionalisms of the Deep South combine with the idiolect of a very particular family to form a singular grammar as fractured as the landscape it describes.

Skinny

Kore Press

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