the body / knows what / it truly / wants yet / the mind / wavers allIn Edward Carson’s provocative new work, the poetic moving parts of movingparts confront and breathe new life into what’s true and what’s not in Aesop’s fable "The Fox and the Crow," as well as the shifting, often fragmentary ground between what’s said and what’s not about identity and intimacy in Sappho’s lyrics.Reflecting the moment-to-moment ways our minds think, these poems take us from a creat...

the body / knows what / it truly / wants yet / the mind / wavers allIn Edward Carson’s provocative new work, the poetic moving parts of movingparts confront and breathe new life into what’s true and what’s not in Aesop’s fable "The Fox and the Crow," as well as the shifting, often fragmentary ground between what’s said and what’s not about identity and intimacy in Sappho’s lyrics.Reflecting the moment-to-moment ways our minds think, these poems take us from a creat...

The poet Charles Simic wrote, “Short poems: be brief and tell us everything.”Edward Carson’s extraordinary new work gathers concise diptych – or twofold – poems exploring themes of love, relationships, myth, art, language, math, physics, geometry, and artificial intelligence. Within the two sections of twofold, “dialogues” and “binaries,” the form of the diptych shapes language and meaning as paired poems engage each other across the margins of facing pages. Caroline Bem, ...

in the poem / of the world / there once / was a map / of the map / composed in / the likeness / of a poemIn this riddling and seeking book of poems, Edward Carson navigates the emotional, often contradictory intelligence of the heart and mind. In three interrelated segments, whereabouts powerfully charts the tight emotional spaces between thinking and language, beauty and perception, love and the polemics of self and other.Taking on cartographic distortions and dyn...

The mind is made / of pleasures and / uncertainty, inviting / as it yearns to be both / puzzle and adversityFull of philosophical digressions, questions, and answers, Knots forms a series of cyclical narrations, a kind of verbal asymmetry or mathematician’s knot, continuously mirroring its ideas and subject matter in a play of language and contrasting points of view."Flight of the Mind & Measure of the Stars" sets an itinerary and series of proposed directions for ...

an orientation of thought in thinking how a / thought begins and then travels on to arrive / at another place connected and like-mindedA work of art is never entirely present in itself but rather is always at large in the mind of the viewer. So it is that a painting needs to know the simplest question those viewing it are asking themselves. From the intimate starting point of observer and observed, Carson's seductive, exhilarating new collection turns poetry and paintings, making a...

an orientation of thought in thinking how a / thought begins and then travels on to arrive / at another place connected and like-mindedA work of art is never entirely present in itself but rather is always at large in the mind of the viewer. So it is that a painting needs to know the simplest question those viewing it are asking themselves. From the intimate starting point of observer and observed, Carson's seductive, exhilarating new collection turns poetry and paintings, making a...

The mind is made / of pleasures and / uncertainty, inviting / as it yearns to be both / puzzle and adversityFull of philosophical digressions, questions, and answers, Knots forms a series of cyclical narrations, a kind of verbal asymmetry or mathematician’s knot, continuously mirroring its ideas and subject matter in a play of language and contrasting points of view."Flight of the Mind & Measure of the Stars" sets an itinerary and series of proposed directions for ...

Carson Gunner is an assassin for the greater good. He is a man with unique gifts.He will deliver justice wherever a costly debt is hiding. He can see what others cannot.He is unable to change the world's ills, but he certainly is trying; "Gunner will find you."EDWARD GARZA

Christopher Carson, or as he was familiarly called, Kit Carson, was a man whose real worth was understood only by those with whom he was associated or who closely studied his character. He was more than a hunter, trapper, guide, Indian agent, and Colonel in the United States Army...His lot was cast on the extreme western frontier, where, when but a youth, he earned the respect of the tough and frequently lawless men with whom he came in contact. Integrity, bravery, loyalty to friends, marv...

In "The Life of Kit Carson," Edward S. Ellis presents a compelling biographical account of the legendary frontiersman and scout, Christopher 'Kit' Carson. Written in a vivid and engaging narrative style, the book intertwines personal anecdotes, historical events, and cultural reflections characteristic of the late 19th century American frontier literature. Ellis meticulously chronicles Carson'Äôs adventures and contributions to the westward expansion, capturing the spirit of exploration wh...

In "The Life of Kit Carson," Edward S. Ellis presents a compelling biography of the iconic frontiersman and scout, Christopher "Kit" Carson. Crafted in an engaging narrative style characteristic of 19th-century American literature, the book intertwines historical accuracy with vivid storytelling, embodying the adventurous spirit of the era. Ellis meticulously recounts Carson's exploits across the American West, offering readers insight into his role in pivotal events such as the Mexican-Am...