Carol Potter’s “What Happens Next Is Anyone’s Guess”

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My cover design for the Pacific Coast Poetry Series’ What Happens Next is Anyone's Guess by Carol Potter features Sea (1929) by Japanese surrealist Harue Koga.

What Happens Next is Anyone’s Guess by Carol Potter

AVAILABLE @ BOOKSHOP.ORG + OTHER BOOKSELLERS

Paperback | 122 pages | April 2022
Published by the Pacific Coast Poetry Series (An imprint of Beyond Baroque Books, Venice, Calif.)

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FROM THE BACK COVER

Here is a collection that reveals what happens when skill meets substantial talent. And what, precisely, is it that happens? The unpredictable—from poem to poem, line to line, a cascade of surprises. Mischief, memory, dream and lusty desire come into play here, and one recurring feature: in virtuoso displays of heady language, the blood and bone of the animal and natural world.

“The first three poems in this book will tell you why you need to read it entire. Carol Potter’s imagination is positively athletic. Muscular, agile. These are poems in which “satisfying” and “close to ruin” can reside in the same moment. This is a poet who can also strike you with quiet recognition: ‘Sometimes you just need to rest your face.’ Check out the love poem ‘Stealth, or A Sweet Bit of Stealing.’ Potter brings playfuness to every poem, no matter how dead serious. One might wonder—amidst all these shenanigans—how does she also manage to be wise? Such is her gift.” —Ellen Doré Watson

“Powerful, relentless, versatile, pendulous, What Happens Next is Anyone's Guess will hold you close, submerge you, make you come up for air, and perpetually keep you guessing.” —Shonda Buchanan

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Carol Potter’s “What Happens Next Is Anyone’s Guess”

My cover design for the Pacific Coast Poetry Series’ What Happens Next is Anyone's Guess by Carol Potter features Sea (1929) by Japanese surrealist Harue Koga.

“Powerful, relentless, versatile, pendulous, What Happens Next is Anyone's Guess will hold you close, submerge you, make you come up for air, and perpetually keep you guessing.” —Shonda Buchanan

ash good is the author of us clumsy gods (What Books Press, 2022) & four previous writing collections. Their poetry has been nominated for Best of the Net & appears in Faultline, Cimarron Review, 45th Parallel, Chautauqua, Bird Coat Quarterly, Voicemail Poems & others.

They are co-founding editor of First Matter Press, a nonprofit writer collective based in Portland, OR.

As a creative director & designer, ash collaborates on publishing projects with small presses, journals, literary organizations, universities & independent authors.

Carol Potter’s “What Happens Next Is Anyone’s Guess”

My cover design for the Pacific Coast Poetry Series’ What Happens Next is Anyone's Guess by Carol Potter features Sea (1929) by Japanese surrealist Harue Koga.

“Powerful, relentless, versatile, pendulous, What Happens Next is Anyone's Guess will hold you close, submerge you, make you come up for air, and perpetually keep you guessing.” —Shonda Buchanan

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ash good is the author of us clumsy gods (What Books Press, 2022) & four previous writing collections. Their poetry has been nominated for Best of the Net & appears in Faultline, Cimarron Review, 45th Parallel, Chautauqua, Bird Coat Quarterly, Voicemail Poems & others.

They are co-founding editor of First Matter Press, a nonprofit writer collective based in Portland, OR.

As a creative director & designer, ash collaborates on publishing projects with small presses, journals, literary organizations, universities & independent authors.