This debut collection explores the vestiges of war and the effects those can have on a family. Carlson excavates the personal experience of violence and abuse that follows a traumatized soldier home and also reveals veins of redemption.
Acclaim
“Carlson’s exquisite debut feels like a powerful woman has tossed a life preserver to a broken child flailing in the vast, tempestuous ocean of a brutal past. . . . The way Carlson faces abusive family history, war’s mental ravaging, and the search for transformation is courageous, authentic, and inspired.”
Booklist
“In this book a brilliant new voice commands our attention. Tina Carlson’s poems take us by surprise, root us in their authenticity, and haunt us with their power.”
Margaret Randall, author of She Becomes Time
“Ground, Wind, This Body follows the crooked river of a family history, from the first fringes of memory where war is a cradle, through poignant songs that document the emotional violence where emerges the translucent beauty of a rainbow after a storm.”
Joy Harjo, author of Conflict Resolution for Holy Beings: Poems
Where to Buy
Published by: University of New Mexico Press
80 Pages, 6.00 x 9.00 in
PAPERBACK
9780826357793 | MARCH 2017
EPUB
9780826357809 | MARCH 2017
