Carrie Magness Radna

In the Blue Hour: Poems Carrie Magness Radna

Poetry. IN THE BLUE HOUR looks hard at that world, sometimes close enough to spit, sometimes far enough away to soar. It's a good, blue ride.--Tim TomlinsonCarrie Magness Radna is a poet of light and shadow, time and space, inner and outer oceans. Every hour holds years of meaning, and those meanings contain the seeds of their opposites, as a disaster contains all the beauty in the universe...--Sharon MesmerIN THE BLUE HOUR is a collection of poems about love 'stripped raw' but with 'honey-sap inside.' Carrie Magness Radna's voice is both tender and tough as she explores her attachments to a sometimes cruel world, and her poetic techniques are deftly displayed at every emotional pitch.--Robert ScottoIt is a book of memory--of parents, lovers, men, women, damaged or lost; of sadness and pleasure, of loneliness and struggle with depression; of a chaotic world on the brink of destruction; a book of longing.--Anna HalberstadtBeauty, love, and melancholy are Carrie Magness Radna's themes. Her soft and gentle voice is elegiac. At their best, her poems present memorable images and metaphors that transcend our tragic limits. She might be called Keatsian in that her best poems convince readers that truth and beauty are one 'and all [we] know and need to know.'--Mike GravesPoised alternately between the ascension of art and immersion in quotidian waters, between refinement and candid observation, forthright, associative, and free, with interpolated trills of operatic tremolo, covert confessional notes caught between chronicle and reflection, IN THE BLUE HOUR archives recollection's collage.--Jack Cooper