Black Bullets in the Sweet Jar by Alison Carr Ruth Stacey bloomed like an angry

bloomed like an angry

dynamic and threatened nature

one who is seeking his ‘one true beloved’ through an heroic tally of amorous encounters

Containing selections of the work of 60 poets (ranging in age from their early 20s to their mid-50s) of the 180 who have contributed to the project over the past 3 years

a sense in retrospect of inevitability

Black Bullets in the Sweet Jar by Alison Carr Ruth Stacey bloomed like an angryDurham writer Alison Carr looks back to the childhood she lost when she was knocked down by a hit and run driver when she was eight years old. Written with a beautiful melancholy, the poems are constructed around iterative images of lost childhood pleasures, of falling apples and seasonal change, connecting personal feelings of loss with larger narratives of the Fall mythical, anthropological and economic. Smokestack Books