Poetry. Winner of the New Measure Poetry Prize. "If ostranenie-to make strange-is the mandate of contemporary poetry, Emily Carr has achieved this both brilliantly and beautifully. Kaleidoscopic in its glimmering slivers, the life she brings us is built of charged familiars slightly and completely changed: the sun turns on its stem; the stallion rolls in a pasture of blue ether. Although she references poetic antecedents from Wallace Stevens and William Carlos Williams to Joan Retallack and Mary Ruefle, it's not their voices, but their facility for invention, itself here reinvented, that keeps waking us up into a world sometimes alarming, often unsettling, and always careening until we, too, arrive 'delirious & shredded, sailing sideways through the greenly ravished vowels'"—Cole Swensen.

Author City: SANTA CRUZ, CA USA

Emily Carr is one of four poets featured in Toadlily Press's 2009 Quartet Series, By the Way Of. She has also received awards from Writers at Work, So To Speak, Elixir Press, and Poets Out Loud and been nominated for a Pushcart Prize. She is the author of DIRECTIONS FOR FLYING: 36 FITS: A YOUNG WIFE'S ALMANAC: RIGHT SIDE LOWER ARMS RAISE ARMS BEND KNEES REPEAT ON LEFT (Furniture Press Books, 2010) and 13 WAYS OF HAPPILY: BOOKS 1 & 2 (Parlor Press, 2010). Her poetry has been published most recently or is forthcoming in BOMBAY GIN, Interim, The Black Warrior Review, Hayden's Ferry Review, Gargoyle, Margie, Phoebe, Matrix, The Capilano Review, Dusie, ISLE, So To Speak, Caketrain, CV2, The Fiddlehead, The Antigonish Review, and Versal. Emily has also published scholarly work on poetics, performance, and pedagogy in Jacket, HOW2, ISLE, and English Studies in Canada.

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