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CAROL CASEY
Carol Casey lives in Dish With One Spoon Territory, Blyth, Ontario, with her husband, hundreds of books, and a large garden. She is madly in love with her five amazing grandchildren. Her work has been twice nominated for the Pushcart Prize and has appeared in Pinhole Poetry, The Prairie Journal, Please See Me, Front Porch Review, Blue Unicorn, and others, including a number of anthologies, most recently, Stones Beneath the Surface (Black Mallard) and the Up Your Ars Poetica Anthology (Peters and Driscol). Her first collection of poems, What Can Happen: Family and Other Raptures of Imperfection is available on Amazon.
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WHAT CAN HAPPEN - FAMILY AND OTHER RAPTURES OF IMPERFECTION
Carol Casey begins this poetry collection with “From the ancient recesses of life/that folds like an accordion,/unfolds like rows of paper snowflakes/full of holes, light and dark/themes reverberate,” The theme that binds this book together is that of connection- to family, from ancestors to descendants; to nature; and to ideas. It is an exploration of the wefts and warps that hold the tapestry of a human life together. Each poem about the author’s personal experience or recollections is coupled with a reflective piece meant to deepen, lend insight or simply provide some counterpoint. Together they form a couplet within the poem that is this book.