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Afraid of poetry? Carolyn Martin is here to change your mind.
Metrophobia is a laugh-out-loud, deeply relatable collection from award-winning poet Carolyn Martin. Whether she’s blessing a feral cat, reporting live from the Sermon on the Mount, or riffing on AI and aging, Martin busts the myth that poetry is just for scholars or romantics with quills.
Bruce Gunther
“Metrophobia: An Irrational Fear of Poetry” is the perfect testament to Carolyn Martin’s gift of seeing and imagining the world through a unique perspective that’s equal parts joyful, soulful, inquisitive, and witty. Seemingly nothing escapes her keen eye and poetic craft – from feral cats, to interviews with Jesus, and to mortality statistics in 1632 London (“Death by Planet”). In her closing poem, “Eighty,” Carolyn promises to spend her next decade strutting “shamelessly across any space, shouting abundant words without an apparent blush.” I can’t wait.