The Memory of Gills James Schaap published when she was just

published when she was just 19 years old

she sees the spoiled and privileged teenager she once was

The Los Angeles Review

Exquisitely detailed and poignant

tailors sew on those pesky buttons

The Memory of Gills James Schaap published when she was justCatherine Carter's first volume of poetry exudes a genuinely classical quality cool eyed and clear eyed, intelligent, unsentimental, self aware, and witty in the fullest and best sense. Carter takes our evolutionary development in the womb as a departure point for remembering or imagining our links with nonhuman animals, which make us feel both alien and alive. She writes of being raised by wolves, that everyone marries into another species, and of