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Cameo Blue: Carnegie Mellon University Press Poetry Series

Autor Carolyn Guinzio
en Limba Engleză Paperback – 19 feb 2026
A ruminative collection of poetry that is mystified by life in our built and natural world.

Cameo Blue is a spiritual topography, recording the traces of people in their environments, natural and otherwise, and the portents, memories, and signs they use to navigate their path or understand the precipices they face. Lush with color, weather, and imagery, some poems are driven by breathless conjecture, or propelled by the acute observation that often comes with shock, when time stands still and a camera flash reveals the gap between external and internal, hope and fear, past and future. Other poems cross physical and emotional space more quietly, with a narrative voice like the intimate whisper of a secret podcast. The collection is its own immersive environment for the reader to fall into, with poems that take on a talismanic quality, laden with haunted characters, resonant objects, and occult signs.
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Specificații

ISBN-13: 9780887487248
ISBN-10: 0887487246
Pagini: 80
Dimensiuni: 140 x 216 mm
Greutate: 0.45 kg
Editura: Carnegie-Mellon University Press
Colecția Carnegie-Mellon University Press
Seria Carnegie Mellon University Press Poetry Series


Notă biografică

Carolyn Guinzio is the author of seven previous collections, including A Vertigo Book. Her work has appeared in The New Yorker, The Nation, Poetry, and other journals. Her other books include Spoke & Dark and Ozark Crows, a collection of visual poems. A Chicago native, she has lived just outside Fayetteville, Arkansas, since 2002. Her website is carolynguinzio.tumblr.com

Cuprins

7 When Deciding Where to Live
8Watching Starlink from an Intex Pool
10Rabbit
11Leaf Vein
12While You Were at the Plant Store
14The Gap Through Which We Must Not Drop
15Absence of Image
16Lumen Two
17Late Fall
18Down Ballot
19Earthshine
20Gaps and Planes
22On the Brink of Extinction
24Do We Know Enough to Know We Are
Not the Same Being
26This Is What Makes Something Real
27Celestial
28The Floor Collapsed in a Fire, and the
Carpet Became a Cup
30Constellation (Detail)
32Center
34Lumen One
35Cameo Blue
36Compass
38To Send Forth Breath
40Armory
41Whihala
42Unclear Conflict
43Crop
45Virtual Confetti
46Blue as in Spruce
48Cowbird
50Imago Four
51Channel Four
52Crochet
53Arizona
54The Dead End of the Leaf
56Cymbalism
57The Word Comet
59This Is the Life
61You Are Moving, It Is Still. It Is Moving, You Are Still.
62Never Mind That
63Curtain
64City
65Coven
67Crypt
69Comfort(er)
70Phantoms of the First Frost
72Fans and Fronds
74As If It Sprang from Our Heads
75A Flight of Stairs
77The Shadow Of
78Half Rest
80Moon, Real and Reflected

Recenzii

"In Carolyn Guinzio's luminous new book, Cameo Blue, she has set herself a large task: to hold the world by observing nature and to recognize the role of artifice in doing so. The poet then becomes not only a shaper of words on the page, but a spokesperson for the subtleties of light, the body, the relation of safety to danger, and the redemptive noise of language. And it is the eye as well that serves this process: her imagery is gorgeous and true, reality as beauty. She doesn't turn away from difficulty: not even death separates her characters from their generative tasks: 'their dead / appearing as if nothing / is wrong, going on about / what to plant this year . . .' This poetry recognizes eternity but dwells in the moment, always savored by the speaker's bold eye and ear."

"I am in awe of Carolyn Guinzio. Every poem in this book is a sea—an immense, mystic system made of both salt and dream, and what is the dream? That time bends grief the way water bends light; that being separates us, only so that we might know we are never apart. Cameo Blue startles me alive."

"To read Cameo Blue is to find oneself pausing in exquisite double takes. Here, the workaday world offers itself only to step back a pace and then return, beautifully foreign. These are shimmering poems whose 'eerie quaking' . . . 'marks the border of being alone / and not alone.' Surely we all know rupture, death, or the diminishment of a world wracked by environmental crises. Carolyn Guinzio perceives these things keenly, and then perceives still further, redeeming loss with fierceness and delicacy, 'fighting specter / with specter.'"