Girl at the End of the World

<h3 class=ql-align-center><strong><em>Girl at the End of the World </em>works through death with a sharp focus on place and environmental disaster expanding into the realms of science fiction and mythmaking. This book is Erin Carlyle's second full-length poetry collection published by <em>Driftwood Press</em>.</strong></h3><p class=ql-align-center></p><p>These beautifully crafted image dense poems capture the landscape of the <strong>South</strong> and of <strong>poverty </strong>by highlighting the speaker's girlhood in flashback as she recalls violence and mourns the death of her father caused by opioid <strong>addiction.</strong> </p><p></p><p>The collection widens into <strong>ecopoetry</strong> in its exploration of ecological concerns like <strong>wildfires </strong>that threaten the self and the earth. </p><p></p><p>Connecting both threads is the search for answers through an interrogation of <strong>familiar childhood stories and tales</strong> the <strong>supernatural</strong> and the <strong>universe.</strong> The speaker has an impulse towards magical thinking that allows her to unpack the juxtaposed <strong>existential</strong> and ecological themes. </p><p></p><p><em>Girl at the End of the World </em>asks the reader to consider where we are going and where we have been. It is about a world and a past that are dying. Ultimately it is for readers who want to know how to survive the personal and global disasters that are continually occurring. </p>