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Signs of Marriage: Poems by Carla Schwartz
Finishing Line Press 2022
"I can't seem to get away from the truth of Contemplating Humanity While Swimming. It's such a startling piece of writing, the theme of it. We all have the capacity, I think, to do what we think we'd never do, what others would swear we'd never do. This poem captures that, the heinousness of possibility in being human."-Chila Woychik, writer and editor, Eastern Iowa Review
Buy Signs of Marriage here: https://bookshop.org/p/books/signs-of-marriage-carla-schwartz/18531712?ean=9781646628575
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And here's a link to the promo video for the book: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c3iNO7FXt2w
"Intimacy with the Wind: Poems by Carla Schwartz"
Finishing Line Press, 2017
"Living on a solar-powered houseboat as it moves up and down Lake Champlain is bound to make one intimate with the wind--its vagaries, energies, and comforts alike. But in Carla Schwartz's new collection of poems, there are also the winds that pass over and through the inner landscapes. There are, for instance, the winds that bring us together in love, and the winds that draw us apart in grief. Also, there is the chill wind of the harm that some may do to others, and there are the winds of determined resilience, the kind that carry the survivor to the shore. These finely crafted poems give us this poet's vivid sense of being in the world, as if we are with her breathing in what life has to offer, a good wind overhead, like a blessing." — Fred Marchant, author of Said Not Said (Graywolf Press, 2017)
Buy Intimacy with the Wind here: https://www.amazon.com/Intimacy-Wind-Carla-Schwartz/dp/1635343097/
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Check out the promo video for Intimacy with the Wind here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qGJ0Fx40WoA
Mother, One More Thing: Poems by Carla Schwartz
Turning Point, 2014
“Darting between the elegiac and the voluptuous with the guilelessness of a young girl, Carla Schwartz’s graceful first collection examines loss and continuation from the perspective of a naturalist and a daughter. Schwartz’s poems display a flirtatious reverence for the world of all that ripens and wizens – processes worthy, to this poet, of equal praise. We follow her five keen senses from berry patch to sickbed to clear and frigid lake, feasting and lamenting at what must perish. By the end of this succulent book, we have grieved and celebrated lavishly, and our fingers and lips are stained with nectars and pigments the poet has offered us from her unabashed palette.” – Frannie Lindsay
In Carla Schwartz’s Mother, One More Thing, the details of the natural world, as well as the lives we make together as families, friends, and even individual daydreamers, come into radiant focus. Schwartz attends to her subjects with great sympathy, but she refuses to sentimentalize those subjects. Poems such as ‘Green Dress,’ ‘Last Glass of Orange Juice,’ and ‘Mother, One More Thing’ only strengthen their emotional force by exploring the subtle and often contradictory aspects of their occasions. Schwartz is an excellent poet, and her book is built to last.” – Peter Campion, Pushcart Prize-winning author of The Lions: Poems.
Buy the book here: https://www.amazon.com/Mother-More-Thing-Carla-Schwartz/dp/1625490720
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