Splitting Open the World,
borrows its title from Muriel Rukeyser's question,
What would happen if one woman told the truth about her life? The world would split open.
Recognizing that
in this wobbly universe, truths strain, turn, twist/to revise themselves,
Martin explores a world split open in poems about family and friends, about life as an English teacher and Roman Catholic nun, and about the inspiration lurking in the everyday.
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"Part memoir, part elegy,
Splitting Open the World
is another rich and welcome collection by a stellar poet."
-Andrea Hollander, author of
And Now, Nowhere But Here
"Everyone who enters these pages will delight in these poems and become better people in the process."
--Colette Tennant, Ph.D., author of
Sweet Gothic
"Carolyn Martin's
is a bonfire of illuminated reckoning, reconciliation, and redemption. As this buoyant speaker transmutes the agonies of witness to the grace of wisdom, the reader is also transformed."
--Sage Cohen, author of
Writing the Life Poetic