In Every Carnation: The Body of God

by Barbara Knott

This book of poems is presented as the author's "floral arrangement for the table of talk about what matters," in this case, the mystery of the body of god or gods as revealed through incarnation in this more-than-human world. Award-winning poet and fiction writer Barbara Knott says of her work that she is interested "in the world and its diversity of creatures and in what makes us human and in whatever lies in the depths of human experience, where oppositions lay down their arms, where the erotic meets the sacred, and where serious sits down with humor to sort it all out." IN EVERY CARNATION: The Body of God reflects these interests in some poems that "emerge, like flowers, in tight compressed forms that unfold as they are warmed by the reader's gaze" and in other poems that "creep and twine, trail and dangle, like long and shaggy thoughts," all designed for conversational adventure.

83 pages, Paperback

Published July 6, 2018

About the author

Award-winning poet and fiction writer Barbara Knott's work has been recognized locally, nationally, and internationally. While working on her Ph.D. at NYU in drama therapy, Barbara studied acting at the Herbert Berghof Studio with William Hickey. On returning to Atlanta, she became co-director with Charles Knott of The Center for Archetypal Studies and served as program coordinator and then president of the C. G. Jung Society. Now retired from a college teaching career in humanities, she continues to write fulltime. She is editor and host of an online literary/art journal The Grapevine Art and Soul Salon at www.barbaraknott.net where her author page appears.