Remains - Tim Carter and Clara Carter
Tim Carter’s Remains is a stinging, lyric wonder. Where blood and language flood the body’s immediate and involuntary cavities of memory, Carter’s voice surfaces in astonishing remembering. Visible in the vibrant, fractured forms of the mother and the everlasting body of these words, Carter’s revelatory powers are a profound gesture of love, shock, and grief.
The poet writes, “She had always thought that to miss somehow required a body, that it was the body that made one capable of loss.” This book made me breathless until its ending, which was not an ending, but an opening—a living portrait of a family’s life devastated by loss and the circling of loss.
Clara Carter’s powerful collages frame and unmake elegies, delivering the past, present, and future windows of a family with intimate care.
— RACHEL ELIZA GRIFFITHS author of Seeing the Body
ISBN 979-8-9853587-3-52022$18.95Tim Carter lives in Syracuse, NY. He graduated from Syracuse University’s MFA program. Poems and publications can be found on his website, www.thcarter.info.
Clara Carter is an artist, she graduated from The Cooper Union School of Art, BFA in 2010. She lives and works in New York City.
