BOOKS & PUBLICATIONS

Books, Chapbooks, Anthologies
by Wendy Taylor Carlisle
Mercy of Traffic 
Published: 2019
Publisher: Unlikely Books

"Fearless and irrepressible, Wendy Taylor Carlisle's The Mercy of Traffic ... blazes through falsehood, faces up to trauma, lust, and loss, and shows us how to celebrate the world's precarious beauty. "

-- Ann Fisher-Wirth
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Price: $15

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50/50 
Published: 2018
Publisher: Quill's Edge Press 

Immerse yourself in an intersectional collection of poetry and translation, featuring the indispensable work of fifty women over 50.  Prepare for your world to split open.
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Price: $20.00


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UNTOLD ARKANSAS 
Published: 2018
Publisher: Et Alia Press

In this wide-ranging, multigenre compilation, fourteen poets, writers, artists, and photographers explore the richness and complication that infuses Arkansas with its character.

Price: $24.95


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IN PLEIN AIR
Published: April 3, 2017
Publisher: Poetic License
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A gorgeous, limited edition collection of 52 poems in response to the natural world.  Includes 22 graphite illustrations hand-drawn expressly for this anthology.

Price: $25.00


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THEY WENT TO THE BEACH TO PLAY
Published: April 3, 2017
Publisher: Locofo Chaps
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A new chapbook of political poetry by Wendy Taylor Carlisle.
(20 pages)

Price: $5.00


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PERSEPHONE ON THE METRO
Published: March 25, 2014
Publisher: MatHat Press

A collection of poems by Wendy Taylor Carlisle. (27 pages)

Price: $7.95

"Carlisle never lets her verse fall into easy, predictable patterns; her appetitive intelligence won't allow that; rather, she's clearly having a very good time..."

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DISCOUNT FIREWORKS
Published: May 30, 2008
Publisher: Jacaranda Press

A collection of poems by Wendy Taylor Carlisle. (80 pages)

Price: $12.95

With startling elegance and grit, the poems in Discount Fireworks skewer our follies and triumphs and the everydays in between.

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READING BERRYMAN TO THE DOG
Published: December 1, 2000
Publisher: Jacaranda Press

A collection of poems by Wendy Taylor Carlisle. (52 pages)

Price: $7.95

The poems of Wendy Taylor Carlisle are vibrant, original, intelligent, tough, funny, and sharp as a first time blade.

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Poems in Publication
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"Beginning with a line from Desnos"
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"many times upon a time
or at least more than one time
at a zinc bar in a little café
it could have been
a bit different, she said,
by which she meant a bit better
for her"

The Mercy of Traffic,
Unlikely Books 2019
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"Like A Tide"

"Remember. Try to remember, or, failing that, invent.”
​        --Emma Donoghue
 
Everyday life was water: the lagoon, its angelfish and Sergeant Majors, the harbor where the plane landed, the sea that roistered against my thigh, the river that licked my ear.There was clear water and bath water and seawater and river water and the evening cocktail. 
 
Let’s have something to drinkorsomething with fish in it." 
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50/50
Quill's Edge Press 2018
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"Blossom"
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“…old in a blossoming earth”
              --Robert Creeley

In the south of my childhood, time passed
like a plate of ham. Grandma made lard biscuits,
cooked rashers of bacon, fried pork chops,
presided over the hugging and sassing

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Untold Arkansas, 
Et Alia Press  2018
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"Buck Mountain" 
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Before the rain, I couldn't imagine the rain.  It is that way with me.

Yesterday I filled with brilliant sunlight, with air faintly green ...
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In Plein Air,
Poetic License 2018



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"Tatters"

Fall tatters the body of summer
​with endless flaking, leaves drifting

like dandruff, eyelash, fingernail
the replicable cells ... 
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They Went To The Beach To Play,
Locofo Chaps 2016
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"And Simply Read"

But if the body were a kind of book…   Karen Fiser    
                               
Imagine it as a rectangle,
small enough for a hand to circle,

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Ekphrastic: Writing and Art on Art and Writing  
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"The Laughter Mechanic"

The laughter mechanic's arrival is routine.  He rents an office, puts ads in the Pennysaver and arranges his tools —funny car, one liner, banana peel.  He waits. Solemn clients show up. 

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Unlikely Stories: Episode IV
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"Wildcatting"
The redhead is a fool for love.
This September it's a driller from Houston. She trails him east across a landscape
etched with dickey birds.

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Reading Berryman to the Dog, 
2000, Jacaranda Press