Acme Rubbers by Carol Szamatowicz

A book of 76 poems by the author & an introduction by John Godfrey, excerpt below:

"There's room in these poems for all her minds. By naive I mean something that has never happened before. These poems have a narrative quality of that moment when all her ways of truly seeing and misunderstanding and questioningly accepting occur simultaneously."—from John Godfrey's introduction

Born among ten siblings on Chicago's Southside to a Montanan nurse and a corn factory foreman. Arrived alone in NYC in 1972, still in her teens, settled in East Village. Traveled and wrote in Culebra, France, Germany, Hungary, Ireland, Italy, Portugal, and Mexico. Taught children in NYC for thirty years. Currently teaching yoga. Books of poetry include Zoop (Owl Press, 2001); Reticular Pop-Ups (Insurance Editions, 2004); Blasting through a Hole in the Universe (Green Zone Editions, 2009), Kit Carson (Tent Editions, 2017) and ACME RUBBERS (Insurance Editions, 2018).

Insurance Editions, 2018

6” x 8.5”

93 pages