Cover; Contents; The Dawn of Time; The Book of Steve; Arson in Ladytown; Some Kisses; The Goddess Freyja in the E.R.; That Time Again; The Pack; Cast Casing, Eastern Pondhawk; Sump; Losing the Way; Mid-July, 39; Hook Woman; The Earthquake; "Have a Blessed Day"; Hydro Plant Accommodates Rafting Industry; Torch Song; Sneakthief; The Kings of Tarshish; Maytide: The Orgy; With Child; Haggadah; To the Unborn; Sprickets; Sam and Ralph; November Evening, Splitting Stovewood; There Is a Tide; Occult Bat Encounters; Toast; Secrets; Legacy; One More Ars Poetica; Leaffall; Last River; In the Graveyard
SeedstashAmong the Assassins; The Hole; Men's Neckties; Eggcorns; This Time; Sirens, Chesapeake Bay; The Man Who Tried to Save Holland Island; The Fairy Your Parents Forgot to Ask to the Christening; Promise Land; Secret Identity; Cannibal Family; Eating the Dead; The People She Knows; The Body; Swarm
In Catherine Carter's The Swamp Monster at Home, classical sirens sing from a Chesapeake Bay island; Adam and his lover, Steve, share beers in Eden; and a Norse goddess strides into an emergency room, "glowing like grain." With quirky imagination and wry humor, Carter exposes the connections between human and nonhuman, blood and home. Building from The Memory of Gills, Carter's debut collection and winner of the Roanoke-Chowan Award for Poetry, these vivid and tender poems consider the immanent and sometimes animistic natural world. The Swamp Monster at Home, however, takes new risks, offering
