A Matter of Selection

(CarolSmallwood's) greatest strengths lie in her own original content, and in that respect, A Matter of Selection soars not only as a follow-up to her past collections, but also as an independent entry into the modern poetic landscape. Be it the personal touches inside the profound, "The Universe," the sensory allusions of "A Chemo Visit," the domestic snapshots shaping "The Sewing Box," or the startling social commentary beneath the short and simple "Examples," Smallwood ensures that just about every piece is surprising, unique, and resonant. As such, A Matter of Selection is a tour-de-force illustration of the potentials of poetry.

--Jordan Blum, founder, editor-in-chief, The Bookends Review

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A Matter of Selection

(CarolSmallwood's) greatest strengths lie in her own original content, and in that respect, A Matter of Selection soars not only as a follow-up to her past collections, but also as an independent entry into the modern poetic landscape. Be it the personal touches inside the profound, "The Universe," the sensory allusions of "A Chemo Visit," the domestic snapshots shaping "The Sewing Box," or the startling social commentary beneath the short and simple "Examples," Smallwood ensures that just about every piece is surprising, unique, and resonant. As such, A Matter of Selection is a tour-de-force illustration of the potentials of poetry.

--Jordan Blum, founder, editor-in-chief, The Bookends Review

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A Matter of Selection

A Matter of Selection

by Carol Smallwood
A Matter of Selection

A Matter of Selection

by Carol Smallwood

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(CarolSmallwood's) greatest strengths lie in her own original content, and in that respect, A Matter of Selection soars not only as a follow-up to her past collections, but also as an independent entry into the modern poetic landscape. Be it the personal touches inside the profound, "The Universe," the sensory allusions of "A Chemo Visit," the domestic snapshots shaping "The Sewing Box," or the startling social commentary beneath the short and simple "Examples," Smallwood ensures that just about every piece is surprising, unique, and resonant. As such, A Matter of Selection is a tour-de-force illustration of the potentials of poetry.

--Jordan Blum, founder, editor-in-chief, The Bookends Review


Product Details

ISBN-13: 9780998146980
Publisher: Poetic Matrix Press
Publication date: 03/05/2018
Pages: 97
Product dimensions: 6.00(w) x 9.00(h) x 0.28(d)

About the Author

Carol Smallwood's over five dozen books includes: Women on Poetry: Writing, Revising, Publishing and Teaching, noted on Poets & Writers Magazine list of Best Books for Writers. Recent anthologies include: Writing After Retirement: Tips by Successful Retired Writers (Rowman & Littlefield, 2014); Bringing the Arts into the Library: An Outreach Handbook (American Library Association, 2014); Library Partnerships with Writers and Poets: Case Studies (McFarland, 2017). Carol has founded and supports humane societies. She's received multiple Pushcart Prize nominations.

Table of Contents

A Matter of Selection

3 Preface

Prologue

7 We Select

I.

Nature

11 The Universe

12 Year After Year

13 The Water Cycle Selects

14 Wind in Trees

15 The Passing Fields

16 Water Puddles

17 The Naming

18 Plants

19 A Tree

20 Galaxies

21 Dog Days Triptych

22 Constellation Tercets

23 On the Way

24 Dirt Roads

26 Photographs

27 Thoughts on Light

28 Choice of Navigators

29 The Big Corn Field

II.

Moments in Time

33 My Earliest Memory

34 Septet

36 Stamps

37 Safety of Predictability

38 Form

39 A Chemo Visit

40 Probate

41 Acoustic Ceilings and Tile Floors

42 It is Hard to Accept

43 Grade School Dream

44 Two-Faced Janus

45 I Divine

46 Dreams of Flying

48 In the Civil War

49 Icons

50 Answers I’d Like to Know

51 What Does it Mean?

52 J.C. Penney Litany

53 A Hardcover Book

54 You Know

55 The Rub

56 The Line

III.

The Domestic

59 A Supermarket Triptych

60 Hanging Clothes on Clotheslines

61 The Car Wash

62 Sewing by Day

63 The Sewing Box

66 The Last Doll

67 A Dishwashing Liquid Pantoum

69 The Key

70 Shopping at Tom’s

72 Shallow Boxes

73 Arranging Spices on Your Shelf

74 Shades of Gray

75 Capturing the Moon

IV

Speculations

79 Prufrock Napkins

80 A Matter of Location

81 Near the Library Window

82 Why Does the Moon Shine?

83 Catching On

84 The Radio Said

85 A Matter of Lines

86 Examples

87 Last Night

88 In Kansas

89 There Were Only

90 Salt on Fast Food Trays

91 A Room of My Own

92 Select Moments

93 The Reading Room

94 Sleeping Beauty

Epilogue

97 Patterns

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