"Sharon Carter's poems reveal an astonishing sensibility, a voice that probes the intimate life of the body--personal, cultural, history itself-- with the exactness of a scalpel. The heart stutters on, she tells us, and she would know. As a physician, she became attuned to the crack and groan of the human body: illness and death rising like birdsong from the throat; women in labor; fissures on an iced-over lake like the blight of a mammogram. Her...
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