Poetry. "Since at least the days of Horace, poets have found in nature, in the local flora and fauna, an invitation to observe, name, meditate and wonder. In QUARRY, Carolyn Guinzio's second collection, this tradition continues, in poems of tautly drawn, subtle eloquence. Her tone is somber, her pace gradual, as if, at any moment, something might happen to alter everything and toss the great endurance of life into ruin, or revelation: 'A tremendous question hangs in the December sky'"--Ann Lauterbach. "These are beautiful poems. Reading them, one begins to weigh what it means to live, with patience and inside language, on the face of this (still) living earth"--Tony Tost.
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Carolyn Guinzio is the author of one previous collection of poems, WEST PULLMAN, winner of the 2004 Bordighera Poetry Prize. A Chicago native, she received a BA from Columbia College and an MFA from Bard College. Her work has appeared in Blackbird, Colorado Review, DENVER QUARTERLY, 42 Opus, Indiana Review, NEW AMERICAN WRITING, and many other journals. She has received awards from the arts councils of Kentucky and Illinois and now lives in Fayetteville, Arkansas.
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A friend recommended this book and I have been carrying it with me for the past couple of weeks, dipping in, savoring these exquisite poems. I get from them a kind of sustenance I get from so little contemporary poetry.
The "quarry" of Guinzio's title is multifarious, ever shifting: the "geologic face" where "workable rock" is mined, the list of species birders "hunt," the unseen or unnoticed, "what resides in the deepest grass." In a larger sense, though, Guinzio's quarry, it seems to me, is something grander, more ineffable: the thing "we're too close to see," what we miss because we aren't looking for it--in essence, the very subject and substance of poetry. These poems are dense and airy, classical and contemporary, mysterious and perfectly clear. They are, in the end, the record of a life lived and of an alert and and generous spirit moving through the world that asks us again and again to "stop what you're doing and look." Buy this book. To read it is to come into contact with the unaltering and unalterable power of poetry.
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