Episode 24: Julie Carr
Rachel Zucker speaks with poet, professor, translator, dancer, choreographer Julie Carr about her book Think Tank and her many other recent projects. They discuss narrative, abstraction, prose envy, pleasure, desire, movement, reading with a group, compositional process and writing habits, homophonic translation, writing-through-reading, pheromonal meter, improvisation, form, mode, and “the poetics of containment.” Carr describes how she and her husband Tim Roberts founded Counterpath Press and the evolution of the focus and identity of the press. Zucker and Carr talk about Carr's role as editor of Rachel’s book, MOTHERs. They also discuss teaching, the financial crisis, money, the daily, moving into more engagement with others, social and political activism and poetry as site of individual change, desire and arousal.
Books of Poetry by Julie Carr
Mead: An Epithalamion (University of Georgia Press, 2004)
Equivocal (Alice James Books, 2007)
Sarah—of Fragments and Lines (Coffee House Press, 2010 - Selected for the National Poetry Series)
100 Notes on Violence (Ahsahta Press, 2010 - Winner of the Sawtooth Poetry Prize)
Rag (Omnidawn, 2014)
Think Tank (Solid Objects Press, 2015)
Books of Prose by Julie Carr
Surface Tension: Ruptural Time and the Poetics of Desire in Late Victorian Poetry (Dalkey Archive, 2012)
Objects from a Borrowed Confession (Ahsahta Press, 2017)
Other writers/artists/makers/people/organizations mentioned in the episode
Family Resemblance: An Anthology and Exploration of 8 Hybrid Literary Genres (Rose Metal Press, 2015)
Cesar Vallejo’s Trilce (Shearsman Books, 2005)
Hannah Arendt’s The Human Condition (University of Chicago Press, 1998)
Cole Swensen’s Noon (Green Integer, 2003)
Tim Roberts (Julie’s husband and co-founder of Counterpath)
Myung Mi Kim’s Commons (University of California Press, 2002)
Alice Notley’s Descent of Alette (Penguin, 1996)
MOTHERs (Counterpath, 2013)
Lisa Robertson’s “Utopia,” published in R’s Boat (University of California Press, 2010)
Bernadette Mayer’s Midwinter Day (New Directions, 1999 reissue)
Adrienne Rich’s An Atlas of the Difficult World (W.W. Norton, 1991)
