Carlyle, Erin: Girl at the End of the World

Driftwood Press, paperback Publication Date: September 17, 2024 Publisher Marketing:  Erin Carlyle’s Girl at the End of the World works through a father's death with a sharp focus on place, expanding into the realms of science fiction and mythmaking. -- “In Girl at the End of the World, her second, full-length collection published by Driftwood Press, one of Erin Carlyle’s speakers (an admitted shoplifter) asks, What must it be like/to be an honest girl?” It’s a provocative question appearing in a book that with precision and unflinching, clear-eyed honesty explores (among other things) the difficulties of global warming/wildfires, poverty, violence against women, and the loss of a beloved but complicated parent to addiction. Loss and hardship thread through these hard-hitting, spare and beautifully rendered poems, poems that again and again prove the power of language to transform suffering into art.” — Beth Gylys, author of After My Father: A Book of Odes “It’s hard/ to say if/ a crac