The Weather in Normal by Carrie Etter
PBS Winter Recommendation 2018 Jonathan Edwards Published by Enitharmon Press on

Published by Enitharmon Press on 09

with cover art by Basil King

and the values and meaning that we assign to each

The rest of the book is filled with voices: of children

The Weather in Normal by Carrie Etter <br><b>PBS Winter Recommendation 2018 </b> Jonathan Edwards Published by Enitharmon Press onCarrie Etters fourth poetry collection focuses on her hometown of Normal, Illinois, in the American Midwest. The Weather in Normal is not a set of straightforward memories but a slowly shifting entity, like a moving storm. The book opens with Night Ode, a poem set on a single street at night, the protagonist walking and feeling the oppressive summer heat, the humming of cicadas and the various ages she has walked the same road: sixteen, nineteen,