Poetry. A National Poetry Series winner, chosen by Eileen Myles. In the wake of a mother's battle with Alzheimer's and a child's impending birth, Julie Carr gathers the shards of both mourning and joy to give readers poems that encompass it all: "Zebra and xylophone cyclone and sorrow." Here she says, "Since I lost her I stored her like ore in my / form as if later I'd find her, restore her," giving voice to the longing that accompanies life's most profound losses and its most anticipated arrivals.

Author Hometown: Denver, CO USA



About the author: Julie Carr's first book, Mead: An Epithalamion, won the University of Georgia Press's contemporary poetry prize for 2004. Her other books are EQUIVOCAL (Alice James Books, 2007); 100 NOTES ON VIOLENCE (Ahsahta Press, 2010), winner of the 2009 Sawtooth Poetry Prize selected by Rae Armantrout; and SARAH—OF FRAGMENTS AND LINES (Coffee House Press, 2010), a National Poetry Series winner chosen by Eileen Myles. Carr's poems have appeared in such journals as VOLT, American Letters & Commentary, Pool, Verse, The Iowa Review, Boston Review, and TriQuarterly. She lives in Denver and teaches at the University of Colorado, Boulder.

Reviews:
Carrie Olivia Adams @ the Quarterly Conversation
interview by Andrew Zawacki @ Rain Taxi
Angela Stubbs @ The Nervous Breakdown
Megan Burns @ Tarpaulin Sky Reviews
One of Anis Shivani's 17 Most Important Poetry Books of Fall 2010 @ The Huffington Post
Noel Thistle Tague @ CutBank