Always This Falling Locke's sensitive observations of both the commonplace and the exotic take on richer meanings through her simple yet evocative words and images. In free verse and occasional stream-of-consciousness style, she explores events and emotions as familiar as a kitchen ("French Bread") and as alien as a hospital room ("Keeping Vigil"). Locke's unique poetic voice will speak to every reader.
76 pages $14.95
What others are saying about Always this Falling:
"Carolyn Locke's poems are crystal clear, and while they forage a kind of territory that has something to do with nature and silence and the human being in all of this, she is also a poet of rare intelligence when it comes to writing about relationships. Her poems make me serene.They are as clear as water and as sturdy as pre-war apartment buildings on Riverside Drive." —Michael Klein, author of 1990, Track Conditions, and The End of Being Known
"Carolyn's sensory details can stop me cold in my tracks." —Nora Mitchell, author of Your Skin Is a Country and Proofreading the Histories
"In Always This Falling, Carolyn Locke trains her clear gaze at the earth and the body: muscle and flesh, flower and root. Her questing spirit interrogates everything, unearthing the rich life beneath what we can see and taste. She celebrates our seasons of abundance and loss––what we risk and what we reap. Above all, these lucid, truthful poems shine with love."
—Joan Larkin, author of My Body: New and Selected Poems, Cold River, A Long Sound, and Housework
Locke's sensitive observations of both the commonplace and the exotic take on richer meanings through her simple yet evocative words and images. In free verse and occasional stream-of-consciousness style, she explores events and emotions as familiar as a kitchen ("French Bread") and as alien as a hospital room ("Keeping Vigil"). Locke's unique poetic voice will speak to every reader.