Instant Winner: Poems

A moving, authentic exploration of spirituality and the domestic from a prize-winning poet

The wry, supple poems in Carrie Fountain's second collection take the form of prayers and meditations chronicling the existential shifts brought on by parenthood, spiritual searching, and the profound, often beguiling experience of being a self, inside a body, with a soul. Fountain's voice is at once deep and loose, enacting the dawning of spiritual insight, but without leaving the daily world, matching the feeling of the "pure holiness in motherhood" with the "thuds the giant dumpsters make behind the strip mall when they're tossed back to the pavement by the trash truck." In these wise, accessible, deeply emotional poems, she captures a contemporary longing for spiritual meaning that's wary of prepackaged wisdom--a longing answered most fully by attending to the hustle and bustle of everyday life.

Binding Type: Paperback
Publisher: Penguin Books
Published: 09/30/2014
ISBN: 9780143126638
Pages: 96
Weight: 0.30lbs
Size: 8.80h x 5.90w x 0.30d

Review Citations: Booklist 10/15/2014 pg. 12
Kirkus Reviews 10/15/2014
Publishers Weekly 02/02/2015