Praise for Ioanna Carlsen
“Ioanna Carlsen situates herself on the borderline between noumenal and phenomenal (if there could ever be such a place). She attempts no answers, but instead finds surprising contours for the almost inexpressible. She declares beautiful truths, like ‘seeing is forgetting the name of what is seen…’ Nuanced, shadowy, alert to metaphysical paradox, Carlsen’s poems are like that shimmer glimpsed up ahead on the highway that we never quite reach, but that keeps drawing us forward.”
“It is the soul of Breather that I love, its deep thinking & feeling & searching & humility, the way the poet proceeds as just another human, always leaving room for the thoughts & feelings of other humans breathing alongside her.”
