A Guide to Tongue Tie Surgery - (Mary Burritt Christiansen Poetry) by Tina Carlson (Paperback)

About the Book

"A Guide to Tongue Tie Surgery gives voice to abused children, murdered women, research animals, war veterans, and even metronomes and lampshades. In poems inspired by Ovid, Tina Carlson explores the roots of voicelessness and journeys into metamorphosis, granting speech to those ignored or victimized and thereby allowing them to provide witness to their own lives"--

Book Synopsis

A Guide to Tongue Tie Surgery gives voice to abused children, murdered women, research animals, war veterans, and even metronomes and lampshades. In poems inspired by Ovid, Tina Carlson explores the roots of voicelessness and journeys into metamorphosis, granting speech to those ignored or victimized and thereby allowing them to provide witness to their own lives.

Review Quotes

In A Guide to Tongue Tie Surgery, vulnerable myths and porous pasts are 'blown open.' These poems unhinge for the reader a kind of nourishment. 'We were once specks of light, ' Carlson writes, as she moves us toward illumination.--Lauren Camp, author of Took House

These are the poems, poet Tina Carlson the guide we need at this crucial time in the inferno of our own making.--Carole Simmons Oles, author of A Selected History of Her Heart: Poems

Tina Carlson's images are always palpable, surprising, their resonance almost too powerful for the page. What she does with those images, how she shapes and where she takes them, is an experience her readers won't forget. I am still catching my breath.--Margaret Randall, author of Stormclouds Like Unkept Promises

About the Author

Tina Carlson is also the author of Ground, Wind, This Body: Poems (UNM Press).