Reading Berryman to the Dog

Praise for

Wendy Taylor Carlisle's

Reading Berryman to the Dog:

"The poems of Wendy Taylor Carlisle are vibrant, original, intelligent, tough, funny, and sharp as a first-time blade. I admire them utterly. They do not contain a single extra word. They have the power to transport, to remind, in all the best senses of that word, re-mind to uplift and enlarge the mental faculties to a finer degree of sensibility. . . . I appreciate the heat and summer here. That's one lucky dog."

-Naomi Shihab Nye, former chancellor of

the Academy of American Poets

"?'The body stores it all,' writes Wendy Taylor Carlisle. In this strong collection, the mother brakes at a stop sign and flings her arm across the child's chest, the dead 'never lay their fingers on a sunburned arm,' and the lover 'invade[s] her nostrils as a hot, metallic smell.' From classical reference to personal recollection, the poems in Reading Berryman to the Dog are vivid and immediate."

-Penelope Scambly Schott, author of

Waving Fly Swatters at Angels

Praise for

Wendy Taylor Carlisle:

"The history, deep south surroundings, and personal convictions of poet Wendy Taylor Carlisle are a collective wonder to behold."

-Gabriel Ricard, Drunk Monkeys review of

The Mercy of Traffic