Only the simple things in life are true, Carolyn Clark writes in Watershed, a book that offers incontrovertible evidence to prove it true.
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Like the best poets, she helps us see our own world more clearly and experience it more fully. -Mary Gilliland, author of The Devil\'s Fools Carolyn Clark is a keen observer of the world around her, and an excellent communicator of what she sees.
Clark\'s work celebrates marriage\'s sick days and valentines, a ranch\'s new blue eggs and hand tools and dearly aging mares-aware that we are just one stop away from extinction, yet affirming hope as a space to live in.
A free spirit with wordplay, rhyme, and cognates across the European language spectrum, she addresses her trees as rusting red/organ donors/doing their job/better than me and pauses during a pandemic to feel no guilt/in rejoicing in nature.
In her poems, Carolyn Clark pictures the first and seeks the second. -Grace Cavalieri, Maryland Poet Laureate This book\'s title points two ways: literal and metaphoric.
So do ours, your readers.
Clark says, My heart glows with affection.
Cobwebs, woodchucks, compost, Covid, stars-poems from the pandemic that make us heal.
To create the beauty and mystery of classic myths within the natural world is to be inside and outside of the imagination, a rare read.
Where else could we get woodlands, strawberries, free range blue eggs, in a world populated by Artemis, Eurydice, Apollo, and horses. -Charles Jensen, writer, https: //linktr.ee/charlesjensen Carolyn Clark gets better with each book, each poem.
Clark\'s book assures us, with warm comfort, that our connections are what keep us aloft, whether marital, communal, or natural.
While nature is always welcome in these poems, it is the community of people Clark honors with them that somehow resonate more deeply, perhaps the way they offer stark relief to the isolation and fear of the pandemic.
In meditations on the bucolic life of upstate New York, Clark marvels at the enduring beauty of the natural world and finds within it echoes of the Greek antiquity from which some areas take their names.
Only the simple things in life are true, Carolyn Clark writes in Watershed, a book that offers incontrovertible evidence to prove it true
