A Guide to Tongue Tie Surgery gives voice to abused children, murdered women, research animals, war veterans, and even metronomes and lampshades. In poems inspired by Ovid, Tina Carlson explores the roots of voicelessness and journeys into metamorphosis, granting speech to those ignored or victimized and thereby allowing them to provide witness to their own lives.
Acclaim
“Tina Carlson’s images are always palpable, surprising, their resonance almost too powerful for the page. What she does with those images, how she shapes and where she takes them, is an experience her readers won’t forget. I am still catching my breath.”
Margaret Randall, author of Stormclouds Like Unkept Promises
“Here lies a beauty great enough to capture and heal an aching heart, elegiac enough to canonize the lost. These poems cut a path lit by the ancestral flint of Carlson’s scalpel. Stepping out into the light after the dark theater of these poems, one perceives more readily a world stripped of its skin, fed by their true seeing, their lazar gaze, and Carlson’s own crooked smile, these the touchstones of her artistic reliquary.”
Lise Goett, author of Leprosarium
“In A Guide to Tongue Tie Surgery, vulnerable myths and porous pasts are ‘blown open.’ These poems unhinge for the reader a kind of nourishment. ‘We were once specks of light,’ Carlson writes, as she moves us toward illumination.”
Lauren Camp, author of Took House
“These are the poems, poet Tina Carlson the guide we need at this crucial time in the inferno of our own making.”
Carole Simmons Oles, author of A Selected History of Her Heart: Poems
Where to Buy
Published by: University of New Mexico Press
128 Pages, 6.00 x 9.00 in
PAPERBACK
9780826365248 | AUGUST 2023
EPUB
9780826365255 | AUGUST 2023
