Can we declare today as “Anne Carson day” - it could be a type of poetry hygge to offset seasonal affective disorder
Melissa Eleftherion Carr
@apoetlibrarian.bsky.social
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Poetry. Libraries. Adventures. Transformations. Author of Suture, Malocchia, field guide to autobiography, gutter rainbows, 12 chapbooks, & more. Busy mom. Poems all over. Cat butler. Dog wrangler. apoetlibrarian.wordpress.com she/they
![Melissa Eleftherion starts with "how we're taught / to contain / the abject" and takes us through a journey where "family / was / a/ secret war." These erasure poems depict a struggle through trauma, doubt, and worth to come out the other side "resolve[d] / to matter." Suture gives us a well-crafted, important narrative that will stay with us. — David Harrison Horton, Necessary](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:namnzhjoebjrydedytidabhl/bafkreihq5pvtjmh3sqmwaphoyc5knfdhlo3uxnxln7mlbvvjsw3bx3n2sm)
