The Sustain Pedal
In The Sustain Pedal, Carol Jennings continues the poetic journey she began in The Dead Spirits at the Piano. Her poems create a connection with the composers she listens to and plays on the piano—Beethoven, Chopin, Brahms, Mendelssohn—as well as with the natural world she loves and mourns for what is being lost. Retreating glaciers, volcanoes, coral reefs, viruses, the outer edge of the solar system—her poetic craft evokes both what we cannot control and what we must learn to control to survive.
THE DEAD SPIRITS AT THE PIANO
Published by Cherry Grove Collections
In The Dead Spirits at the Piano, Carol Jennings communes with the spirit world – composers, poets, saints, parents, friends, ex lovers, demons, suicides – and traverses a topography of sonatas and symphonies, her mother’s piano, her father’s drugstore, Greek ruins, limits of mind and body, beached whales, bad dreams, alter egos, the younger self, fairy tales, glaciers, solstice and equinox, changing weather, end of life, and a changing world.