Black Bullets in the Sweet Jar by Alison Carr Ruth Stacey bloomed like an angry

bloomed like an angry

he encounters many classic wildlife icons and sees for himself the changes coming to these wildernesses

a sense in retrospect of inevitability

O’Rourke here expands and enriches the thematic concerns of his early work to accommodate new forms of portraiture and moral questioning

Black Bullets in the Sweet Jar by Alison Carr Ruth Stacey bloomed like an angryDurham writer Alison Carr looks back to the childhood she lost when she was knocked down by a hit and run driver when she was eight years old. Written with a beautiful melancholy, the poems are constructed around iterative images of lost childhood pleasures, of falling apples and seasonal change, connecting personal feelings of loss with larger narratives of the Fall mythical, anthropological and economic. Smokestack Books