In A Fixed, Formal Arrangement Carter uses the short prose form to render the liminal space of between-ness. What exactly is spare time? Is a comma as servile as they say? Is a garage located inside or outside? What is the world, and why/how does it exist around you? These are the best questions of literature, and these short, serial pieces are brilliantly precise and heart-achingly poignant in their strange explorations. A Fixed, Formal Arrangement is published as part of the TrenchArt: Tracer Series, with an Introduction by Danielle Dutton and visual art by Ken Erhlich and Susan Simpson.
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There is something both eerie and real about this microscopic world, the way one feels the first time you realize that ants have complex lives. What? That's us? Yes. In this great debut book. --Thalia Field
In A Fixed, Formal Arrangement, Allison Carter relinquishes all negotiable capital, all legitimate emotions, all historical certainties. She is trending, instead, toward the hell-that-will-not-be-denied, itself a slippery slope of desire, a here that will not congeal, the outside that will not stay out. Identity is not premeditated it is worn incompletely and it never fits, nor stays in place. It has no history and no forecast. --Diane Ward
In A Fixed, Formal Arrangement, Allison Carter relinquishes all negotiable capital, all legitimate emotions, all historical certainties. She is trending, instead, toward the hell-that-will-not-be-denied, itself a slippery slope of desire, a here that will not congeal, the outside that will not stay out. Identity is not premeditated it is worn incompletely and it never fits, nor stays in place. It has no history and no forecast. --Diane Ward
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Allison Carter is the author of the chapbook Shadows Are Weather (Horse Less Press). Other work has appeared in Word For/Word, Combatives, P-Queue, 5_Trope, Fence and other journals.
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This review is from: A Fixed, Formal Arrangement (Trenchart: Tracer Series) (Perfect Paperback)
People seldom care to think much these days. They lightly ponder, muse, or meditate, purging the mind of unnecessary thought, but they just don't care to think. Allison Carter dug down into the deep recesses of her mind to create titillating dreamlike prose in her first book, A Fixed Formal Arrangement.
Akin to the pluot, Carter mixes her free verse prose to create her unique brand of poetry, at times revealing her innermost emotions. Danielle Dutton, in the introduction, claims it "is a book that wants to be talked to," yet it talks right back. "Russets and a deeply throbbing sun, thrushes and grass.The wind swept through the cherry trees and loosened the blossoms. The blossoms spent hours winding slowly toward the sidewalk. Dusk set with a cricket. Outside an evening bird made noises." In between the words and the weeds, I found Allison to be a very talented writer. Her work was reminiscent of the free floating verse I remember well from the sixties and seventies. This is the type of book one could spend an hour or two or months trying to find its meaning as it spins from one thought to another, barely connected by a thread, yet seamlessly woven together. Kudos! Deb Fowler (Roundtable Reviews)
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