A moving, authentic exploration of spirituality and the domestic from
a prize-winning poet
The wry, supple poems in Carrie Fountain's second collection take the
form of prayers and meditations chronicling the existential shifts
brought on by parenthood, spiritual searching, and the profound, often
beguiling experience of being a self, inside a body, with a soul.
Fountain's voice is at once deep and loose, enacting the dawning of
spiritual insight, but without leaving the daily world, matching the
feeling of the "pure holiness in motherhood" with the "thuds the giant
dumpsters make behind the strip mall when they're tossed back to the
pavement by the trash truck." In these wise, accessible, deeply
emotional poems, she captures a contemporary longing for spiritual
meaning that's wary of prepackaged wisdom--a longing answered most fully
by attending to the hustle and bustle of everyday life.