Books & Poems

ELEGY FOR THE FLOATER, by Teresa Carson
“Now available from www.upne.com and major online retailers”

These poems can be harrowing. Ten children, two troubled parents. The speaker’s own excesses and catastrophes (remember: a lot of the time frame of this book is the 1970s!) but always the author’s relentless honesty, clarity, understatement, humor, and skill keep the poems from tipping into the abyss of self-pity...The prime characters…are the mother, father, and the speaker. As the book…reaches its final sequence…its most important character, the speaker’s brother, who died a suicide, by drowning, fully emerges. The strictness of the form…just does its job, which is to give a frame, a tension, something for the powerful emotion to work off of or against, and thus increasing its tensions, its powerful sentiment…By writing this book…Teresa Carson has rescued her family (as much as a family can be rescued) and rescued her brother (as much as the drowned can be rescued). That a book of poems can do this is a miracle. For which I am grateful.
— From the foreword by Tom Lux

Featuring:
— The Road to the River Blocked
— The History of My Nightmares
— Afterwards

Further details coming soon. Please check back for ordering information.

Teresa’s poems can also be found in:
The Breath of Parted Lips, Volume 2 available from www.upne.com
and the why and later available from www.deepcleveland.com.

Teresa reading at the Cornelia Street Cafe for launch of the why and later anthology edited by Carly Sachs.

Teresa reading at the Cornelia Street Cafe for launch of the why and later anthology edited by Carly Sachs.