Resilience

Three years bound together in a collection of poetry written by Blair Julian Carver, a recent graduate of the University of Arkansas with a BA in English Literature."Blair Julian Carver's debut poetry collection, resilience, occupies itself with mapping how the i (nearly always lowercase) might do so. Or, more often, has done so. But she does not write about this in grand sweeping statements. More instructive are the small moments when the poet zooms in on the human body-her lover's or her own-and makes meaning in how those bodies touch and how they pull apart and how that "i" moves through a world in hopes to reach someone equally as lonely." - Zach Harrod, MFA, University of Arkansas