13 ways of happily

Books 1 & 2 Emily Carr Winner of the New Measure Poetry Prize Chosen "Top 11 (Canadian) Poetry Books of 2011" by Rob McLennan Free Verse Editions Edited by Jon Thompson Information and Pricing 978-1-60235-202-5 (paperback, $14); 978-1-60235-203-2 (PDF, $9.99). © 2011 by Parlor Press. 75 pages. Bookstores: Order by fax, mail, or phone. See our "Sales and Ordering Page" for details. What People Are Saying . . . “If ostranenie—to make strange—is the mandate of contemporary poetry, Emily Carr has achieved this both brilliantly and beautifully. Kaleidoscopic in its glimmering slivers, the life she brings us is built of charged familiars slightly and completely changed: the sun turns on its stem; the stallion rolls in a pasture of blue ether.  Although she references poetic antecedents from Wallace Stevens and William Carlos Williams to Joan Retallack and Mary Ruefle, it’s not their voices, but their facility for invention, itself here reinvented, that keeps waking us up into a world