Tina Carlson's images are always palpable, surprising, their resonance almost too powerful for the page. What she does with those images, how she shapes and where she takes them, is an experience her readers won't forget. I am still catching my breath.--Margaret Randall, author of Stormclouds Like Unkept Promises

In A Guide to Tongue Tie Surgery, vulnerable myths and porous pasts are 'blown open.' These poems unhinge for the reader a kind of nourishment. 'We were once specks of light,' Carlson writes, as she moves us toward illumination.--Lauren Camp, author of Took House

In A Guide to Tongue Tie Surgery, vulnerable myths and porous pasts are 'blown open.' These poems unhinge for the reader a kind of nourishment. 'We were once specks of light,' Carlson writes, as she moves us toward illumination.--Lauren Camp, author of Took House

These are the poems, poet Tina Carlson the guide we need at this crucial time in the inferno of our own making.--Carole Simmons Oles, author of A Selected History of Her Heart: Poems