Underscore Notes on Mother Tongues “all in for all…” PACES

“all in for all…” PACES THE CAGE is a beautiful rehearsal of attentiveness

transacted

and buried many times over by history

Ted Hughes

Underscore Notes on Mother Tongues “all in for all…” PACESJulie Carr Julie Carrs deeply intimate collection, Underscore, is dedicated to two of Carrs foundational teachers, the dancer Nancy Stark Smith and the poet Jean Valentine, both of whom died in 2020. Elegiac, tender, and at times erotic or bitter, these poems remain deeply invested in human relationships amid a life whose backdrop is human suffering. Reaching toward the ghost companions in the thicket and to the beloveds who still pulse with activity,