The Land Itself

Jared Carter's poetry " . . . in its fidelity both to the letter and the spirit of the land – does something that art should never lose sight of: it adheres so scrupulously to the world as it is, to the 'local habitation' in all its distinctiveness, particularity, and long extent of its history, that it assumes the very form and character of that region, is shaped and scoured by it, and so becomes a true expression of the land itself.” ---from the Introduction.