Shells, ears, damaged mirrors—the images in Karolyn Redoute’s powerful new book, Whispers from the Aural World—conjure a mysterious emotional landscape that is as real as the lost city of Detroit where she grew up, and as heartbreaking as the silence between parents and children or, later on, between lovers. Redoute makes us feel that there’s hope, that through the discipline of poetry we can force the shards of broken glass into focus and find our whole reflections again.
— Maura Stanton, author of Immortal Sofa
Prophecy and memory exist on the same plane in Whispers from the Aural World by Karolyn Redoute. Children pause in the space between hours, a father drives a house like a car, and a staircase patiently anticipates turning into a story. With homegrown mysticism, Redoute discovers magic in the corners of rooms and in the corners of the mind, building a delicate bridge across childhood loss and wonder to an adult understanding of identity.
— James Cihlar, author of The Shadowgraph
Publication Date: 4/30/2018
ISBN: 978-1-63210-034-4/
80 pages, $14.95
Poetry : American – General
Body, Mind & Spirit / Mindfulness & Meditation