Ann Elizabeth Carson latest book Loose Ends, published by Aeolus House
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Responses & Reviews
League of Canadian Poets
Loose Ends a Tightly Woven Collection: Review of Loose Ends by Ann Carson, Reviewed by Sean Arthur Joyce “In Loose Ends Carson has woven together a focused, highly accomplished collection with many wonderful lines that leap out at the reader …the “Oh!” one experiences at the unexpected, the original.”
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The Sudbury Star
Bonni Kogos, in the Sudbury star: “Ann Elizabeth Carson’s Loose Ends, her seventh compellingly brilliant book reflects on childhood, aging, and what it is that binds all us humans, as well as our deep connection to our beautiful, fragile planet….”
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“In Ann Carson’s poems the body is a fragile container, but the spirit and the senses remain strong and engaged with the surrounding world, especially nature. … The poems of Loose Ends are tactile and vivid, at times sensual and often courageous in their insistence on life in the face of physical frailty. The poems declare with vigor, that a human life is so much more than the sum of its parts.”
―Kate Rogers, author of Out of Place and City of Stairs
“Ann Elizabeth Carson’s Loose Ends is a poetic meditation that looks back on a life well-lived, and reflects on life, death, ageing, childhood, the ties that bind all us humans, and our deep connection to our beautiful, fragile planet. The delicate yet powerful poems in this book create links between the past and present: Carson vividly evokes her girlhood during the Depression and WWII, then draws parallels between the horrors of that historical period and those of our own. This is a moving and life-affirming book, reminding us tenderly but insistently what we owe to each other and our world.”
―Nora Gold, author of The Dead Man, Fields of Exile, and Marrow
“How lucky am I to have read Loose Ends, a new and wonderful collection by Ann Elizabeth Carson! Reflecting upon her poignant and evocative poetry and prose, you experience a sensory nurturing that embraces your soul and reawakens your appreciation of nature and humanity. Carson’s striking artwork enhances this radiant offering.”
― Rosanna Micelotta Battigelli, author of La Brigantessa and Pigeon Soup & Other Stories