Cross This Bridge at a Walk

by Jared Carter

Since Jared Carter's poetry collection, Work, for the Night is Coming, won the 1980 Walt Whitman Award, he has been recognized as one of the nation's major poets. This is his fourth collection of poems. He continues to tell us about a place called Mississinewa County. His poems reach out to the stories, myths, and recollections of an entire continent.

Genres: Poetry

120 pages, Paperback

First published June 30, 2006

About the author

His first published poems appeared in Indiana Sesquicentennial Poets in 1967. In 1980, his first book, Work, for the Night Is Coming, received the Walt Whitman Award. His second, After the Rain, received the Poets' Prize in 1994.
Subsequent collections have been Les Barricades Mysterieuse in 1999, Cross this Bridge at a Walk in 2006, and A Dance in the Street in 2012.
In 2014 his sixth book, Darkened Rooms of Summer: New and Selected Poems was published by the University of Nebraska Press, with an introduction by Ted Kooser.
His poems have appeared in The New Yorker, The Nation, Hudson Review, Iowa Review, Kenyon Review, and other journals in the U.S. and abroad.
He has received grants from the Guggenheim Foundation and from the National Endowment for the Arts.
A recent introduction to his work is The Ties of the Railroad Tracks Home: The Poetry of Jared Carter by Goodreads Author Gilbert Wesley Purdy.

Reviews

[Pamela · Rating 5 out of 5]

This is an amazing book of narrative poems. Jared Carter should be as well known and as widely read as B. Collins.

[Pirate Hat Hughes · Rating 5 out of 5]

an entirely moving collection of prose & storytelling