Small Murders (Inland Seas)

Poetry. SMALL MURDERS features poet Carrie McGath's strong and beautifully disturbing work. "McGath is, to borrow her own words, a 'happy woman of knots.' In her poems you will meet a windshield vandal whose weapon is lipstick in the shade of Fire Engine #45; a coveter of murdered dolls; a dashboard Mary who's been jilted; a doctor who holds up a newborn 'like a fresh catch off a pier'; Frida Kahlo folded up in somebody's sock drawer. You will encounter rape and ruination, sadness, dissection, miracles. These ruthlessly unsentimental, dark, angry-funny poems are spoken by the loneliest girl in the time-zone' and proffered-she pulls it off somehow-with an irrepressible good cheer"--Nancy Eimers.