{"id":99,"date":"2020-06-02T02:26:50","date_gmt":"2020-06-02T02:26:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sporkpress.com\/shop\/?post_type=product&p=99"},"modified":"2020-06-08T21:02:10","modified_gmt":"2020-06-08T21:02:10","slug":"emily-carr-name-your-bird-without-a-gun","status":"publish","type":"product","link":"https:\/\/thisissporkpress.com\/shop\/product\/emily-carr-name-your-bird-without-a-gun\/","title":{"rendered":"Emily Carr, “Name Your Bird Without a Gun”"},"content":{"rendered":"

You might think the magic in Emily Carr\u2019s Name Your Bird Without a Gun<\/em> would be in its Tarot-generated love story, and sure, that\u2019s sufficiently magical, but the real magic in this book is in its opulent and sultry renderings of nature\u2019s movements, of the world just being its ravishing self, captured in dazzling and nimble verse that will wreck you worse than your petty little broken heart.
\n\u2014Lily Hoang, author of The Evolutionary Revolution<\/em> and A Bestiary <\/em><\/p>\n

Name Your Bird Without a Gun is at its most tantalizing when surreal landscapes are experienced as bodily knowledge\u2014\u201cHydrogen & oxygen fall through trees. \/ Fat clouds & strange lightbulbs. \/ Fish shaped like tattered stars. Iridescent bacteria \/ in the sediment of letters\u201d\u2014and the cost of rebellion is a chilling intimacy\u2014\u201cShe would like to kill herself but she\u2019s told \/ she must go on, at any cost.\u201d Carr\u2019s fabulism electrifies these uncanny poems, but in the end, it is Liberty\u2019s clear resolve that instructs us: \u201cAcross \/ her grief she writes left to right: go on: finish \/ those years that might have belonged to someone else.\u201d
\n\u2014Dorothy Barresi, author of What We Did While We Made More Guns <\/em><\/p>\n

Melodic, sublime, and sewn by the threads of the Tarot\u2019s wisdom,\u00a0Name Your Bird Without a Gun<\/em>\u00a0transmutes the Fool\u2019s Journey into one full of \u201chyperbole, hope & promise.\u201d The book even seems to have an intrinsic power for bibliomancy.
\n\u2014Benebell Wen, author of\u00a0Holistic Tarot <\/em><\/p>\n

Emily Carr’s marvelous shape-shifting, reality-slipping poems truly embody the essence of Tarot\u2014not a hard and fast “prediction” of events but a way to explore the magic\u2014and deep painful reality\u2014of existence.\u00a0 As a \u201cTarot Romance-In-Verse\u201d the poems can be said to form a narrative, but it is the same narrative as a Tarot reading,\u00a0 one that constantly slips into something else, quantum shifts of something else, or as Emily puts it, \u201cwhole worlds bleeding in dreams of forest\u2014”
\n\u2014Rachel\u00a0Pollack, author of\u00a0Tarot Wisdom<\/em>\u00a0and\u00a0The Beatrix Gates <\/em><\/p>\n

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Emily Carr writes murder mysteries that turn into love poems that are sometimes (by her McSweeney\u2019s<\/em> editors, for example) called divorce poems<\/em>. These days, she\u2019s Assistant Professor of Creative Writing at the New College of Florida. Her third poetry collection, whosoever has let a minotaur enter them, or a sonnet\u2014, is available from McSweeney\u2019s<\/em>. It inspired a beer of the same name, now available at the\u00a0Ale Apothecary<\/a>. Emily is also creator of the world\u2019s first poetry boardgame, Dr. Carr\u2019s Word Forage. Learn more at\u00a0www.ifshedrawsadoor.com<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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