Splitting Open the World

<p class=ql-align-justify><em>Splitting Open the World</em> borrows its title from Muriel Rukeyser's question <em>What would happen if one woman told the truth about her life? The world would split open. </em>Recognizing that <em>in this wobbly universe truths strain turn twist/to revise themselves</em> 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.<span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1)> </span></p><p class=ql-align-justify></p><p class=ql-align-justify>-----------</p><p class=ql-align-justify></p><p>Part memoir part elegy <em>Splitting Open the World </em>is another rich and welcome collection by a stellar poet.</p><p><strong>-Andrea Hollander author of <em>And Now Nowhere But Here</em></strong></p><p></p><p></p><p>Everyone who enters these pages will delight in these poems and become better people in the process.</p><p><strong>--Colette Tennant Ph.D. author of <em>Sweet Gothic</em></strong></p><p></p><p></p><p>Carolyn Martin's <em>Splitting Open the World</em> 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.</p><p><strong>--Sage Cohen author of <em>Writing the Life Poetic</em></strong></p><p></p><p></p><p></p>