Dysphoria

Carr’s daring playfulness launches its assault on traditional forms and values. An impressionistic poetics theory in which the ground of meaning continually shifts as the body orients itself to its own desires. In this latest collection, worthy follow-up to Blue Roses, he attends to the concrete lived experience of those who, on the one hand, suffer from doubt, dislocation, and self-hatred and, on the other, long for confession and communion. So bright, where burning heaven walks like a shadow looking up beneath a rain of hammers.