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Author:   Carolyn Guinzio
Publisher:   Carnegie-Mellon University Press
Imprint:   Carnegie-Mellon University Press
Dimensions:   Width: 14.00cm , Height: 1.00cm , Length: 21.60cm
Weight:   0.113kg
ISBN:  

9780887487248

ISBN 10:   0887487246
Pages:   80
Publication Date:   19 February 2026
Audience:   General/trade ,  General
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Forthcoming
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Table of Contents

7 When Deciding Where to Live 8Watching Starlink from an Intex Pool 10Rabbit 11Leaf Vein 12While You Were at the Plant Store 14The Gap Through Which We Must Not Drop 15Absence of Image 16Lumen Two 17Late Fall 18Down Ballot 19Earthshine 20Gaps and Planes 22On the Brink of Extinction 24Do We Know Enough to Know We Are Not the Same Being 26This Is What Makes Something Real 27Celestial 28The Floor Collapsed in a Fire, and the Carpet Became a Cup 30Constellation (Detail) 32Center 34Lumen One 35Cameo Blue 36Compass 38To Send Forth Breath 40Armory 41Whihala 42Unclear Conflict 43Crop 45Virtual Confetti 46Blue as in Spruce 48Cowbird 50Imago Four 51Channel Four 52Crochet 53Arizona 54The Dead End of the Leaf 56Cymbalism 57The Word Comet 59This Is the Life 61You Are Moving, It Is Still. It Is Moving, You Are Still. 62Never Mind That 63Curtain 64City 65Coven 67Crypt 69Comfort(er) 70Phantoms of the First Frost 72Fans and Fronds 74As If It Sprang from Our Heads 75A Flight of Stairs 77The Shadow Of 78Half Rest 80Moon, Real and Reflected

Reviews

""In Carolyn Guinzio's luminous new book, Cameo Blue, she has set herself a large task: to hold the world by observing nature and to recognize the role of artifice in doing so. The poet then becomes not only a shaper of words on the page, but a spokesperson for the subtleties of light, the body, the relation of safety to danger, and the redemptive noise of language. And it is the eye as well that serves this process: her imagery is gorgeous and true, reality as beauty. She doesn't turn away from difficulty: not even death separates her characters from their generative tasks: 'their dead / appearing as if nothing / is wrong, going on about / what to plant this year . . .' This poetry recognizes eternity but dwells in the moment, always savored by the speaker's bold eye and ear."" * Maxine Chernoff * ""I am in awe of Carolyn Guinzio. Every poem in this book is a sea—an immense, mystic system made of both salt and dream, and what is the dream? That time bends grief the way water bends light; that being separates us, only so that we might know we are never apart. Cameo Blue startles me alive."" * Rebecca Gayle Howell * ""To read Cameo Blue is to find oneself pausing in exquisite double takes. Here, the workaday world offers itself only to step back a pace and then return, beautifully foreign. These are shimmering poems whose 'eerie quaking' . . . 'marks the border of being alone / and not alone.' Surely we all know rupture, death, or the diminishment of a world wracked by environmental crises. Carolyn Guinzio perceives these things keenly, and then perceives still further, redeeming loss with fierceness and delicacy, 'fighting specter / with specter.'"" * Elizabeth Robinson *

Author Information

Carolyn Guinzio is the author of seven previous collections, including A Vertigo Book. Her work has appeared in The New Yorker, The Nation, Poetry, and other journals. Her other books include Spoke & Dark and Ozark Crows, a collection of visual poems. A Chicago native, she has lived just outside Fayetteville, Arkansas, since 2002. Her website is carolynguinzio.tumblr.com

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