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An Altar Without Limits: Some Elegies for the Departed
88 pages, Paperback
Published June 11, 2024
About the author
Carol Flake Chapman
10 books2 followersCarol Flake Chapman started out as an academic, with a Ph.D in modern poetry and an esoteric dissertation on Wallace Stevens. She bailed out quickly in favor of journalism, and after a fling as a starving writer in New York became one of the founding editors of Vanity Fair. She has written for many notable newspapers and magazines, including the New Yorker, the New York Times, U.S. News & World Report, The New Republic, and the Boston Globe.
Her first book was Redemptorama: Culture, Politics and the New Evangelicalism, about the rise of the religious right, which is still used in college courses on religion in America.
Following the sudden death of her husband on a wild river in Guatemala, the course of her career changed dramatically. She wrote about her journey of grief and healing in her book Written in Water: A Memoir of Love, Death and Mystery. And as her path of healing progressed, she returned to poetry, her first love. Her dissertation, written in her early 20s, about the poet Wallace Stevens, is still cited in many literary and academic journals. She began writing poems not only about grief and loss, but also about her deep connection to nature, which had been integral in her healing. Her poems began to reflect her Native American roots as well. She received the Joy Harjo prize for poetry in 2019 and was cited as one of the leading poets that year. She has performed her poems in gatherings around the world, from Texas and California to Mexico, France and Mongolia. Her poems have been included in a number of anthologies and literary journals.
Her first book was Redemptorama: Culture, Politics and the New Evangelicalism, about the rise of the religious right, which is still used in college courses on religion in America.
Following the sudden death of her husband on a wild river in Guatemala, the course of her career changed dramatically. She wrote about her journey of grief and healing in her book Written in Water: A Memoir of Love, Death and Mystery. And as her path of healing progressed, she returned to poetry, her first love. Her dissertation, written in her early 20s, about the poet Wallace Stevens, is still cited in many literary and academic journals. She began writing poems not only about grief and loss, but also about her deep connection to nature, which had been integral in her healing. Her poems began to reflect her Native American roots as well. She received the Joy Harjo prize for poetry in 2019 and was cited as one of the leading poets that year. She has performed her poems in gatherings around the world, from Texas and California to Mexico, France and Mongolia. Her poems have been included in a number of anthologies and literary journals.
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