Signs of Marriage by Carla Schwartz

“My favorite is Turntable Park, which may be seen as a contest with nature: wind, rain, waves, with focus on the finish line. The vivid imagery draws the reader into this exploit in this nicely woven poem with no loose threads—a fresh, original creation.”

–Harris Gardener, poet and poetry editor, Ibbetson Street Press

“As far as (Schwartz’s) poems go, they are lovely and gut-wrenching in a good way!”

–Jessica Frelow, writer and editor, Discretionary Love

“I can’t seem to get away from the truth of Contemplating Humanity While Swimming. It’s such a startling piece of writing, the theme of it. We all have the capacity, I think, to do what we think we’d never do, what others would swear we’d never do. This poem captures that, the heinousness of possibility in being human.”

–Chila Woychik, writer and editor, Eastern Iowa Review

Of Stones: “Of course, it’s a love poem, but who would ever think of flirting and seducing a woman with stones?  The journeys along the path to love and matrimony—from a joke to the heavy emotional boulders hauled by a come-along to the small hand-held face up crystal of a loving face at the end—extraordinary.”

–Robert Ober, poet.

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