Drop Dead Red brings the reader to the grittier side of America. Drop Dead Red tackles the author's voice on religion, history, and modern conflict. Drop Dead Red sheds light on the eccentricities of style, the mind, and the world. - - - - - In Elizabeth Carmer's third manuscript, her unique style and deft formal moves grant readers an opportunity to look at the normal in a wildly different way. Without a specific time nor region, each poem dances on the knife's edge of possibility. With this book, Carmer asserts herself as a vivid and surprising voice in American poetry, and the experience of reading it is one you will not forget.