Spine

Carolyn Guinzio Free Verse Editions Edited by Jon Thompson Information and Pricing978-1-60235-754-9 (paperback, $14) 978-1-60235-755-6 (PDF, $9.99) © 2016 by Parlor Press. 79 pages. Bookstores: Order by fax, mail, or phone. See our "Sales and Ordering Page" for details. Reviews "The Ghosts We Trail Behind Us" by Elizabeth Forsythe at The Columbia Review, 14 October 2016. David Nilsen at The Collagist. 2016. Praise for Carolyn Guinzio's Spine “My fellow-/assemblages of cells and I thread/ our minds through the loops/of our bodies” is as succinct a statement of the human (not to mention non-human as well) condition as I have ever read. The loops and hoops of bodies, of the physical constraining the spiritual, is the essential conflict providing the dazzling energy of this brilliant book. These are love poems from and to every conceivable form of life, which is a kind of definition of poetry itself, after all.—BIN RAMKE When I read the poems of Carolyn Guinzio, I feel like I’m learn