Julie Carr lives in Denver. This is her tenth book.

Other poems by Julie Carr in Verse Daily:
July 21, 2015:   "[And behind me lies a man]" by Julie Carr   "And behind me lies a man..."
August 25, 2010:   "Lines of Refusal" by Julie Carr   "Nothing here, just the sound of the heat, the sound of the cars..."

Books by Julie Carr:

Other poems on the web by Julie Carr:
Eigth poems

Julie Carr's Website.

Julie Carr According to Wikipedia.

Julie Carr on Twitter.

About Real Life:

"Only a poet can humble us to the gunshot ghost of the America behind its dream. Julie Carr's resonant genius is at our ears; just look at what's in your hands now, open it, read it. You will join me in saying, Oh Yes, you have made poetry inseparable from life, thank you for showing us the courage to keep them together. We need this poetry."
—CAConrad

"Ordinary life is anything but ordinary. In its daily rhythms a million universes enact themselves in all directions. In Real Life, Julie Carr builds out of essay, poem and fragment this chronicle of in nite dailiness full of what Jean Valentine called 'this-world.' As we negotiate and are mediated by multiple languages— intimate, commercial, informational, political—the text runs in simultaneous modes that delineate the condition of the modern mind. Fairy tales meet nancial facts. Somehow in the narrative of sociality we try to remain human."
—Kazim Ali

"Julie Carr's Real Life: An Installation is a breathtaking feat of imagination, intellect, and empathy. As she writes, 'I want to make something from nothing, to ll the empty vault of a national cry' and this book ful lls that cry. Real Life is a lapidary mourning song in this age of precarity; a durational epic that exquisitely logs the layered realities that overwhelm and impair us from acting. Carr nds threads of truths in not only the statistics of gun deaths but in the worlds that her children and artists create as both a space from and against state violence. Throughout, Carr questions how to make real this state violence dematerialized by late capital; how to 'gure violence without itself being violent.' Real Life is an impressive poetics of possibilities; her sonnets and imagined installations are blueprints of art-making that disturb, move, and awaken us."
—Cathy Park Hong