Tag: Robin Carstensen
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rogue-ing with robin carstensen
As I noted in my recent microreview & interview of Robin Carstensen’s In the Temple of Shining Mercy, one of the things that moved me was the use of empathy as a kind of engine for poetry throughout the collection. The close and true listening required of this kind of writing is instructive and illuminating. Instructive […]
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microreview & interview: Robin Carstensen’s In the Temple of Shining Mercy
review by José Angel Araguz Stray - Robin Carstensen She came howling for food on the porch in June — tufts of gray-white hair sprung from her birdlike strut — huffing a claim for herself, as if she could conjure the rain in this brown drought-struck town, boarded up houses marked Foreclosed. On this small plot […]
The Friday Influence 