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Muddy Prints, Water Shine
Carol Peters
"Muddy Prints, Water Shine is a true joy. Led by music, these poems lean in closely to the natural world, intelligently playing off the resistance between description and discovery."
— Sally Keith, winner of The Colorado Prize for Design
Sample Poem:
Philomel
Before she learns mourning
a girl discovers black horses,
black bees, a blossom's groin,
grackles and sunflower seeds.
A swollen moon, wafer-thin,
rises in a milk-blue sky.
The nature of water is to run.
Grass roots in mud.
The wafer forced between her lips
clings to the roof of her mouth
where she can't taste
or say, at first, what happened.
Collared doves settle and gasp
while a nightingale learns singing.
Reviews for Muddy Prints, Water Shine:
"This observant poet's first collection refreshes the reader with new ways of seeing. A bantam game cock: "Tango toward me, Romeo, elongate your nape / . . . Roll up your eyelids, / rock on toothpick pins." A flamingo taking flight: "she's weightless, wisping, // chalk-dusting away."
— Maxine Kumin, winner of The Pulitzer Prize for Up Country
"Welcome, welcome to these vivid witty poems. Many of them are small the way a ring of engagement is small, huge in promise and portent. All are at their lyric best. They flash across a creature-filled landscape — vegetal, mineral, animal all present in vivid human terms. Carol Peters takes everything into account with nifty verbal agility. Her one agenda is poetry. Her strategy is to catch the moving grace of life as it flashes before us."
— Marie Ponsot, author of Springing: New and Selected Poems
"Muddy Prints, Water Shine reveals the poet's natural instinct for correspondences of this world — what is animal, what is human. The words in these poems work in and out of edges and eddies, shape their aesthetic from the affirmative heartbeat of the living world."
— Shelby Stephenson, author of Possum, editor of Pembroke Magazine
About the author:
Carol Peters's chapbook, Muddy Prints, Water Shine, was recently published by Finishing Line Press. She received an MFA from Queens University of Charlotte. Her poetry has appeared or is forthcoming in Cairn, Ecotone, International Poetry Review, miPOradio POdcast, Pebble Lake Review, Pembroke, RealPoetik, and South Carolina Review. Carol reads fiction and poetry for The Gettysburg Review and teaches writing at the Charleston Public Library. She lives in Charleston, South Carolina and Hakalau, Hawaii.
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Finishing Line Press, 2008
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