In the Carnival of Breathing: Poems

Title	In the Carnival of Breathing: Poems
Author	Lisa Fay Coutley
Call Number	PS3603.O88 I6 2011
Location	2nd Floor Humanities
Rating	Recommended
Book Review	Here is a revelatory chapbook of poetry determined not only to subvert the notion of speaker/audience, but to offer an assortment of lyrics both familiar and distant, personal and isolating, which by the end leave the reader with the tremors of something preternatural. While this is certainly a book of dichotomies, it is much more than that; it is the experiment of a poet, breathlessly, reaching into her own darkness and finding something both beautiful and terrifying about her sense of self and her own self-history. Whether something of substance was actually gained by such an examination is, of course, left to the reader to determine, as this brief but heavy collection could be read as optimistic or tragic, or perhaps, even, somewhere murkier, in-between.
Submitted By	Nick Dante
Department or Major	Leatherby Libraries
Status	Staff
Chapman Email	dante@chapman.edu