Crudely Mistaken for Life

Wolfgang Carstens

Publisher: Epic Rites Press

PubDate: 3/1/2010

ISBN: 9780981184463

Binding: PAPERBACK

Price: $15.50

Quantity Available: 0

Pages: 98

Poetry. "Wolfgang Carstens debuts here with a rock-solid collection of poems where you can sense the presence of the viscera under the blood-coated muscle that is the text. And yet the poems are surprisingly gentle and nostalgic sometimes, sometimes angry, sometimes philosophical, sometimes funny. Not so much a traditional anthology of poems as a manifesto and statement of intent combined with a dissertation on life and the sort of things that are deserving in it, love, loyalty, and the forgotten child inside. Poems to read in all seasons, but especially when winter storms howl outside"—David McLean.

Author Hometown: Sherwood Park, AB CAN

About the author: Wolfgang Carstens lives in Alberta, Canada, with his wife, five children, two cats and a dog. His poetry is printed upon the backs of unpaid bills. CRUDELY MISTAKEN FOR LIFE is Wolfgang's first book.

Reviews:
George Anderson @ Bold Monkey

“CRUDELY MISTAKEN FOR LIFE is a tour de force of poetic skill that you won’t put down until the sun is coming up and your tears are spent and the bottle of Patron next to you is bone dry.”
—Diana Rose

“This book grows on you. Enters your blood. This is compassionate, carefully crafted poetry fascinating to read and worthy of detailed study.”
—George Anderson

“This book is stunningly evocative. Be careful when you pick up this book, you might not be able to put it down.”
—Tony Moffeit

“Straight talk, boiled down from experience, with the fat of fancy skimmed off the top. That’s what we’ve got here. Carstens gets it—he doesn’t waste time with the flowers; he digs in the dirt, about six feet down, to the root of it all.”
—R L Raymond

“Inside these pages you will find some truth, maybe yourself. I’ll trade $15.50 for that any day.”
—Scot Young

“Wolfgang Carstens paints elegant images with intense brushes, uncovering the roots of madness, inhumanity and sorrow in his poetry. There are lines and images as stark as the desert and as delicate as fresh blooms of spring flowers. Carstens goes places you don't want to follow, but, inevitably you do (and for the better). This is poetry, rich, full and brimming with life, even that wrought from the darkest corners.”
—Jack Henry

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