• ISBN13: 9780857426451
• Binding: Hardcover
• Subject: English Literature
• Publisher: Seagull Books
• Publisher Imprint: Seagull
• Publication Date: May 13, 2019
• Pages: 80
• Original Price: INR 399.0
• Language: English
• Edition: N/A
• Item Weight: 160 grams

Using the same musical sense of language she applies to her translations, Nancy Naomi Carlson masterfully interprets herself in an infusion of violets. The sometimes erotic, sometimes melancholy landscapes she creates as the self-appointed sitar’s “ragged throat, pitched/ between here and when,/ caught in quartertones,” Take our breath away. Carlson describes an interior world where tears can produce “so much salt a body floats away,” where “music tuned to loss descends with rain,” and where hope is placed in the “kill-cure.” here we encounter carlson’s ex-husband and luminaries such as rachmaninoff and Monet, among others. Filled with striking images and sensuous language, infusion of violets is an evocative mix of formal and free-verse poems.

Nancy Naomi Carlson is a poet, translator, and editor based in Virginia. A recipient of a literature translation fellowship from the National Endowment for the Arts, she is also a senior translation editor for Tupelo Quarterly.