Showing posts with label Prayer for the Misbegotten. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Prayer for the Misbegotten. Show all posts
Friday, May 15, 2020
Wednesday, May 15, 2019
Friday, December 01, 2017
Julia Carlson's Book Reviewed
Read Lee Varon's take on Julia's new book Prayer For the Misbegotten. It's up on Doug Holder's blog.
Monday, November 20, 2017
“Prayer For The Misbegotten” by Julia Carlson
Winter’s coming, and you’re ready because you don’t have a choice. There is no quaint New England in these poems. No pretty fall colors, no kids laughing on a summer beach. They bespeak the dead of winter. You’ll hear the cracking of ice, slush on the harbor, arctic channels. The prayed-for misbegotten are all of us, including the animals (sparrows, a turtle, a cow, guinea pigs, various species of birds). Verse that is bracing, inclement, severe and 100% natural. It is the man-made disasters for which she reserves judgement: the plight of the homeless man in a Boston winter, a train platform in France from which 50,000 Jews had been shipped camp-ward, abuse of animals, coal mine explosions… “Acts of God I can forgive, but not the acts of men.”
--Dawn Oberg, Songwriter
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