
For Karen Garthe, poetry is a Molotov cocktail. A master of radical invention, Garthe combines brio of conception with linguistic virtuosity, bringing language to new life from the inside at breakneck... Read More
- Seth Abramson, Huffington Post“Karen Garthe writes some of the most expert—and tightly-wound—lyric poems you'll ever read. . . . If discussions of the sort Karen Garthe is performing in The Banjo Clock . . . don't really interest you, that's okay: Just stop reading poetry right now, pick up your favorite beach novella, and forget the world's oldest form of literary currency still exists in any appreciable volume. . . . What Garthe is offering today's poetry readers is a reason to read poetry rather than prose.”
– Seth Abramson, Huffington Post“Karen Garthe writes some of the most expert—and tightly-wound—lyric poems you'll ever read. . . . If discussions of the sort Karen Garthe is performing in The Banjo Clock . . . don't really interest you, that's okay: Just stop reading poetry right now, pick up your favorite beach novella, and forget the world's oldest form of literary currency still exists in any appreciable volume. . . . What Garthe is offering today's poetry readers is a reason to read poetry rather than prose.”