Quarry

Carolyn Guinzio Free Verse Editions Edited by Jon Thompson Information and Pricing 978-1-60235-085-4 (paperback, $12.00); 978-1-60235-086-1 (PDF, $9.99)  © 2008 by Parlor Press, 92 pages. Bookstores: Order by fax, mail, or phone. See our "Sales and Ordering Page" for details. What Others Are Saying Since at least the days of Horace, poets have found in nature, in the local flora and fauna, an invitation to observe, name, meditate and wonder. In Quarry, Carolyn Guinzio’s second collection, this tradition continues, in poems of tautly drawn, subtle eloquence. Her tone is somber, her pace gradual, as if, at any moment, something might happen to alter everything and toss the great endurance of life into ruin, or revelation: “A tremendous question hangs in the December sky.” —Ann Lauterbach Good painters often talk  of nameless colors. Brice Marden once told me he spent a month just mixing.  The poems in Quarry are full of strange, nameless mixtures of words. The work is descriptive, b