Signs of Marriage - by Carla Schwartz (Paperback)

Book Synopsis

"My favorite is Turntable Park, which may be seen as a contest with nature: wind, rain, waves, with focus on the finish line. The vivid imagery draws the reader into this exploit in this nicely woven poem with no loose threads-a fresh, original creation."

-Harris Gardener, poet and poetry editor, Ibbetson Street Press

"As far as (Schwartz's) poems go, they are lovely and gut-wrenching in a good way!"

-Jessica Frelow, writer and editor, Discretionary Love

"I can't seem to get away from the truth of Contemplating Humanity While Swimming. It's such a startling piece of writing, the theme of it. We all have the capacity, I think, to do what we think we'd never do, what others would swear we'd never do. This poem captures that, the heinousness of possibility in being human."

-Chila Woychik, writer and editor, Eastern Iowa Review

Of Stones: "Of course, it's a love poem, but who would ever think of flirting and seducing a woman with stones? The journeys along the path to love and matrimony-from a joke to the heavy emotional boulders hauled by a come-along to the small hand-held face up crystal of a loving face at the end-extraordinary."

-Robert Ober, poet