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"""Her poems resonate with a deep belonging, they roam sniffing out the meaning of things, discovering the lived past still persists in everything her sensibilities languish in, plucking with words the spines of light that exist in memory and making them sparkle before her mind ... and ours."" -Jimmy Santiago Baca ""These are the poems of a life-long traveler ... But a traveler who often strays from the map and admits repeatedly to ending up lost again. By collection's end, we realize that Carroll has grasped the carousel's ring, securing her firm footing in this whirling world and leaving us thankful for the Talking Leaves Scrapbook."" -James Thomas Stevens, author of The Golden Book ""Talking Leaves Scrapbook delivers on its title by way of a 'memory map' of images, which Carroll's peripatetic speaker travels through personal as well as collective history, unfurling story from the ground up.... Hers is a restless music, peppered by recollections of the burn-shocks of racism withstood and a grappling with the broken-treaty past, revealed and countered in brisk lines of pull-no-punches wit, her own beguiling logic, and always a touch of heart coupled with resistance."" -Sawnie Morris, author of Her, Infinite, winner of The New Issues Poetry Prize ""Unlike a real scrapbook, preserving the past, Vivian Mary Carroll's Talking Leaves Scrapbook reimagines and reinvigorates us into a vibrant present, where the past is still living and the future was already here."" -Ed Skoog, author of Run the Red Lights ""Talking Leaves is more than just a book of scraps but a hymnal of the west, in all its soaking blood and high desert crescent moons. Talking Leaves is a fractured sundial of yesterday, now and tomorrow, of you and me and us and them and place and displacement, all played to a beat of the thundered hoofs of all that once ran free and in harmony over this land. Follow Carroll's lattice sky on some stretch of rock and roll and bead-edged buckskin, listen to the talking leaves, find yourself here, feel within these poems everything this here holds."" -Alexander Shalom Joseph, author of The Last of the Light ""Talking Leaves Scrapbook is a continuous flash of luminous poetry. Vivian Mary Carroll invites us to enter her poetic chamber through innate phrasing and the sweeping choreography of a camera's eye. She is a heartfelt and grand illusionist. She can draw us into the present moment or leave us lurking in the worn, crystalline halls of memory. Elements of American history are allowed to emerge here too, like sun-faded colors we can still trace across peeling storyboards. There is a contagious joy and appreciation present in this book that I find reminiscent of Allen Ginsberg and Sherwin Bitsui. The agency of the poet is rather astounding ... Not a single syllable is wasted."" -Cedar Sigo, author of All This Time"

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Vivian Mary Carroll (Cherokee Nation) spent many years in regional theater from Alaska to New York, including teaching costuming to students of Ringling Brothers and Barnum & Bailey Combined Shows, Inc. Clown College. She worked for the Superior Court of Sacramento for twenty-three years and followed a British rock band and a country duo for many years, all the while writing and submitting for publication. She has studied at Idyllwild Arts Summer Writing Program, the Jack Kerouac School of Disembodied Poetics at Naropa University, and Writing By Writers Boulder Generative Workshop. She received her MFA at the age of seventy-two from the Institute of American Indian Arts.

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