Her Imaginary Museum
Claudia Castro Luna, Washington State Poet Laureate (2018 - 2021) and author of Killing Marias and One River, A Thousand Voices
Imagine a museum where subjects step out of paintings and mingle with the real world. Pamela Hobart Carter fuses art and life in Her Imaginary Museum then gives the reader a private tour. Each page holds a lushly painted poem that both elevates the quotidian into high art and grounds the masterpieces. With Carter serving as docent, we see the humor of Gaugin, the impossibility of Dal , and the way a goalbox frames an arcing kick into a work of art. This is a poet that promises, "Now you have seen/what the artist dreamed. / Now you dream. Now / you see."
Heidi Seaborn, Author of Give a Girl Chaos {see what she can do}
Pam Carter's poems exemplify the wisdom of William Blake that poetry is addressed to Vision. Her poetry illuminates both Art and the Ordinary and demonstrates not only that the Ordinary is the proper subject of all art but also that even capital-A Art returns to the ordinary. On the highest level, they represent seeing, not merely through the eyes but with them.
Omar Willey, Publisher of The Seattle Star and author of Polyphony
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