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Splitting Open the World

by Carolyn Martin
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Book cover type: Paperback
  • ISBN13: 9781956285932
  • Binding: Paperback
  • Subject: N/A
  • Publisher: Poetry Box
  • Publisher Imprint: Poetry Box
  • Publication Date:
  • Pages: 96
  • Original Price: USD 18.0
  • Language: English
  • Edition: N/A
  • Item Weight: 141 grams
  • BISAC Subject(s): Subjects & Themes / Death, Grief, Loss, Subjects & Themes / Family, and Women Authors

Splitting Open the World, borrows its title from Muriel Rukeyser's question, What would happen if one woman told the truth about her life? The world would split open. Recognizing that in this wobbly universe, truths strain, turn, twist/to revise themselves, Martin explores a world split open in poems about family and friends, about life as an English teacher and Roman Catholic nun, and about the inspiration lurking in the everyday.

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"Part memoir, part elegy, Splitting Open the World is another rich and welcome collection by a stellar poet."

-Andrea Hollander, author of And Now, Nowhere But Here

"Everyone who enters these pages will delight in these poems and become better people in the process."

--Colette Tennant, Ph.D., author of Sweet Gothic

"Carolyn Martin's Splitting Open the World is a bonfire of illuminated reckoning, reconciliation, and redemption. As this buoyant speaker transmutes the agonies of witness to the grace of wisdom, the reader is also transformed."

--Sage Cohen, author of Writing the Life Poetic

Martin, Carolyn: - From Roman Catholic Sister of Mercy and English teacher in New Jersey to international management trainer; from author of business books to poetry collections; from work addict to devotee of the Spanish proverb, "It is beautiful to do nothing and rest afterwards," Carolyn Martin is blissfully retired--and resting--in Clackamas, Oregon. A lover of gardening and snorkeling, feral cats and backyard birds, Martin embraces poetry as her way of interacting with the world¬¬--in images, rhythms, sounds, and intensities of language. That is why she's settled into the joyful task of translating experience into as few words as possible.Her aesthetic is found in Galway Kinnell's statement, "To me, poetry is somebody standing up...and saying, with as little concealment as possible, what it is for him or her to be on earth at this moment." With little concealment, her poems grapple with this challenge. Martin's poems have appeared in more than 200 publications throughout North America, Australia, and the UK. The Poetry Box released her second collection, The Way a Woman Knows, in 2015; a chapbook, Nothing More to Lose, in 2020; and her fifth collection, The Catalog of Small Contentments, in 2021. For more see: www.carolynmartinpoet.com.

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