In the Carnival of Breathing

By Lisa Fay Coutley

Poetry. IN THE CARNIVAL OF BREATHING is home to eighteen lyrical poems in which land & flesh, water & lung, hope & duress converge. Here lives a narrator at once lake & lake- less, blamed & innocent, asleep & swimming. Angered, terrified, and wrecked not just by the ephemeral nature of love and breath but by her everyday--her progeny, herself--she attempts (or pretends) to make sense of life's transitions wherein laughter is darkness and lightness the heaviest loss.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0982876637
• ISBN13: 9780982876633
• Release Date: July 2011
• Publisher: Black Lawrence Press
• Length: 26 Pages
• Weight: 0.15 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.2" x 5.3" x 8.3"