In a book rich with formal variety and lyric intensity, Carr takes up economic inequality, gendered violence, losses both personal and national, and the crisis of the body within all of these forces. Real Life: An Installation is a terrifying book, but one that keeps us close as it moves through the disruptions and eruptions of the real.

JULIE CARR is the author of six books of poetry, including 100 Notes on Violence, RAG, and Think Tank, and the prose works Surface Tension: Ruptural Time and the Poetics of Desire in Late Victorian Poetry, Objects from a Borrowed Confession, and Someone Shot My Book. Carr’s co-translation of Leslie Kaplan’s Excess-The Factory is due out in 2018. Carr is an associate professor at the University of Colorado in Boulder. With Tim Roberts she is the co-founder of Counterpath Press, Counterpath Gallery, and Counterpath Community Garden in Denver.

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