Taking Shape Poetry
Edward Carson’s linked poems praise at once the logic of love and the place of love. Taking Shape combines his elegance of style and imagination (think of a musical composition) with the immediacy of the erotic. A rare performance.
Robert Kroetsch, author of The Hornbooks of Rita K
Ed Carson’s Taking Shape is a gem. In this new book of interconnected poems, in an attempt to name what love is, to give it a shape that can be grasped, like a metaphysical lapidarist he facets and re-facets it’s language so that the light it reveals refracts and reflects within it and “exceeds its reason for being”. “We come away believing in the shape of something with no shape at all.”