Practicing Disaster

By Jessie Carty

Jessie Carty's newest full length book delivers what her readers have come to expect from her work: well-crafted poems that tackle a wide range of topics with wisdom and surprising moments of humor. Carty is a poet who embraces her humanity, hips and all. She knows one can experience grief and laughter, love and loss at the same time. As she writes in her poem The Rebellion, "We refused to call ourselves zany/because we were just being alive." -Malaika King Albrecht author What the Trapeze Artist Trusts In Practicing Disaster Jessie Carty celebrates and reflects on the ordinary, awkward and difficult in the many different jobs and situations most average people experience. With sympathy and humor Carty relates to the teenage maid finding a condom, the Asian pedicurist sanding a callus, the annoying telemarketer, as well as elderly women who visit graveyards and the widow whose "hands wait / for proffered tissue / handkerchief or napkin / if nothing else." She touches on the commute, the classroom, the layover, yet reaches out to the mythological Atlas, who's reminded, "Quitting is never an option. Retirement unheard of." This is a fun, quirky yet insightful collection to be read and enjoyed. -Jonathan K. Rice Editor/Publisher Iodine Poetry Journal

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0615967698
• ISBN13: 9780615967691
• Release Date: April 2014
• Publisher: Aldrich Press
• Length: 80 Pages
• Weight: 0.38 lbs.
• Dimensions: 9.0" x 0.2" x 6.0"