Cause for Concern (Able Muse Book Award for Poetry) by Carrie Shipers PDF

By Carrie Shipers

ISBN-10: 1927409594

ISBN-13: 9781927409596

Carrie Shipers’s reason for crisis traverses a panorama of various disasters—such as overwork and layoffs, the ill-fated explorer, circus mishaps, nuclear catastrophe and radiation—but at its center is the private catastrophe of spousal disease. whereas a wife may perhaps avow religion within the sentiment of affection in disease and in future health, the perform of such religion could come undone whilst confronted with the truth of the ravages of disorder at the physique of the cherished, along the caregiving mate who “could love/ [her] husband yet mistrust his body,/ anticipate betrayal at each turn.” jam-packed with incisive meditations on frailties and fortitude frequently added with visceral honesty, reason for trouble is spellbinding from begin to end and, deservedly, the winner of the 2014 capable Muse publication Award for Poetry.

PRAISE FOR reason FOR CONCERN:

Carrie Shipers’s brilliant recreation goals to manage the uncontrollable. In her fantastic assortment reason for main issue she offers us her lively poems—subversively pleasant in our period of cool wordplay. either her convenience with ambiguity and her sassy candor reduction the poet as she writes of a spouse who's hoodwinked right into a beneficial patience—one she either chafes from and rebels opposed to after her husband falls heavily in poor health. In rhythms that trade among desire and defeat, the poems tune the disorder, but in addition punctuate the couple’s replaced global with quirky observations and a scrappy spirituality. (Not to say a canines companion.) Her poet’s craft, palpable in each arresting line, makes the subtlest turns of vulnerability with enviable poise.
—Molly Peacock, 2014 capable Muse ebook Award pass judgement on, writer of The Paper Garden

Only a poet of unquestionable bravery and technical acuity may perhaps rehearse the quotidian info of a center category, heart elderly lifestyles with such beautiful, impossible to resist and terrifying honesty.
—Kwame Dawes, writer of Duppy Conqueror: New and chosen Poems

If affliction is a rustic inhospitable to site visitors, then Carrie Shipers’s moment poetry assortment, reason for obstacle, is our guidebook, getting ready us for what we'll locate within the ready room, via the bedside, within the toilet, or at the epidermis while the gauze is lifted. those are bare, open poems. they are saying issues that make us wince, as once we examine an incision nonetheless puckered and crimson. Shipers reminds us that our lives needs to first be prodded and cauterized, if the injured elements are ever to heal.
—Jehanne Dubrow, writer of The prepared Marriage

ABOUT THE AUTHOR:

Carrie Shipers’s poems have seemed in Alaska Quarterly overview, Crab Orchard assessment, Connecticut overview, New England evaluate, North American evaluate, and Prairie Schooner, between different journals. She is the writer of standard Mourning (ABZ Press, 2010) and the chapbooks Ghost-Writing (Pudding condominium, 2007) and Rescue stipulations (Slipstream Press, 2008).
Cause for hindrance is the winner of the 2014 capable Muse e-book Award.

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