African-American and a native of the South, Carl Martin's Brit vernacular\" asks of its reader nothing less than a total ignorance of expectation. These poems, coming after a long silence, engage Romantic tropes such as Vision, Beauty, and the Self, cheek-by-jowl with Pop madness and Modern despair, all in a cadence that is winkingly isolate, stunningly productive. African-American and a native of the South, Carl Martin's \"Brit vernacular\" asks of its reader nothing less than a total ignorance of expectation. These poems, coming after a long silence, engage Romantic tropes such as Vision, Beauty, and the Self, cheek-by-jowl with Pop madness and Modern despair, all in a cadence that is winkingly isolate, stunningly productive. \""Carl Martin is a native of Winston-Salem, North Carolina, where he lives and writes today. | Rogue Hemlocks, Paperback | Indigo Chapters