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Figeater
Paperback
Publisher Price: $18.00
ISBN13: 9781957062259
Publisher: Gunpowder Press
Published: Oct 10 2025
Pages: 92
Weight: 0.30
Height: 0.22 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English
Winner of the John Ridland Poetry Prize.
In Andrea Carter's powerful Figeater, we follow the/road, the terrible invention// of hope until we reach the place where desire stretches the limits of what a heart can endure. Like Jupiter's great storm, this collection is a constant/ hurricane, grasping, expanding, / feeling for a purchase, stability, / a place to collapse, fall apart, re-/accumulate. What abundant, soulful, heartwork.
-Tomás Q. MorÃn
In Figeater, Andrea Carter shows herself to be a master of extended metaphor and the lyric. The book chronicles abuse, abandonment, betrayal-the men often seeing someone else, the mother as wicked queen-I am a moving violation says the speaker-trapped with no one to release me from my glass coffin. There is emptiness and hunger here-No one will know//the hunger of us. The central reveal is scattered like breadcrumbs throughout the book: I looked more like/an adult even at ten, and my body//belonged to my stepfather. In a key poem, The Welder, the speaker is likened to Hephaestus, metal worker to the gods-the daughter is [...]/the conjoining joint, testament//between her mother/and the man her mother sends/her daughter to//in order to make him happy. Figeater is a blistering, deeply felt tribute to Carter's ability to open a coherent and difficult world with language both lush and sharp. It is beautifully wrought.
-Donna Spruijt-Metz
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