paradise, pennsylavnia

paradise, pennsylvania is dedicated to the Amish of Nichols Mine in recollection of their incredible forgiveness and reconciliation in the aftermath of the brutal murder of five Amish schoolgirls by a gunman in 2006. “Life is legalized, consecrated absurdity”, writes E.M. Cioran in Tears And Saints. Carr understands this.  It is realized in the style of his verse, which peels away to reveal what is essential.  The talk is straightforward.  The nuts and bolts of his form is integrity.  These poems are appropriately solemn; they are lighthearted as well.  In Carr’s paradise, pennsylvania, “Simple truth/plows the fertile earth”.  His poems is this collection are short, crisp and direct and prompt the reader's reflection immediately.  There is a merging here of intellect, and the slightly mystical.  There is also an extraordinary preoccupation and consideration of the simple: a 1984 Volvo,wallets, pens, manhole covers, clotheslines, and cereal, which crackles in his lines.  These are poems of America that exist in the political landscape and the natural world  .                                                                                                                     

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