"Deterritorializing the body in sections II-IV" (Image created for my review in of Carrie Bennett's 2016 tour-de-force, The Land Is a Painted Thing.)
In June, 2016 I reviewed an amazing new book of poetry:
We filed into the room. We positioned ourselves along the white walls. Our mouths were closed and waiting.
The Land Is A Painted Thing, Carrie Bennett’s second collection, reads like the first and only poetry of an offshoot-world of our own, where all modes of expression have failed some unfathomable evolutionary test . . .