The Unreliable Narrator - C. M. Clark

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Résumé :
Narrators are never the exclusive property of prose fiction, according to this new chapbook collection, The Unreliable Narrator, by C.M. Clark. In these poems, the author explores how all speakers - even when embodied in written language - can sometimes be forthcoming, and sometimes simply unreliable. There are always unresolved questions concerning whose voice a poem manifests. From the dramatic monologue form, where a character speaks the poem, to a confessional set of lines - or in the case of the prose-poem a block of text - any poem's persona is open to the reader's interpretation. Is any poem ever the poet speaking? Or are all poetic voices more properly unreliable narrators, after all?...

Biographie:
C.M. Clark's work has appeared throughout the U.S., in Canada, and internationally. Publication credits include Painted Bride Quarterly, West Trade Review, Wild Roof Journal, Bookends Review, Prime Number Magazine, Vallum Magazine (Montreal), Punt Volat (Barcelona), The Paddock Review, Pegasus, Ovenbird, and the South Florida Poetry Journal. Her work has been anthologized in collections including Anhinga Press's Rumors, Secrets and Lies, Demeter Press's Travellin' Mama, in Voices from the Fierce Intangible World (South Florida Poetry Journal Annual), and in Chasing Light (Yellow Jacket Press). Clark was a finalist for the Anhinga Press 2021 Chapbook Prize, and runner-up for the Slate Roof Press Elyse Wolf Prize. Clark is the author of full-length works Exoskeletal (Solution Hole Press, 2019), Dragonfly (Solution Hole Press, 2016), Charles Deering Forecasts the Weather & Other Poems (Solution Hole Press, 2012), The Blue Hour (Three Stars Press, 2007), Pillow Talk, a collaboration with painter Georges LeBar (Porky Pie Press, 2007), as well as the chapbook, The Five Snouts, (Finishing Line Press, 2017)....

Sommaire:
Narrators are never the exclusive property of prose fiction, according to this new chapbook collection, The Unreliable Narrator, by C.M. Clark. In these poems, the author explores how all speakers - even when embodied in written language - can sometimes be forthcoming, and sometimes simply unreliable. There are always unresolved questions concerning whose voice a poem manifests. From the dramatic monologue form, where a character speaks the poem, to a confessional set of lines - or in the case of the prose-poem a block of text - any poem's persona is open to the reader's interpretation. Is any poem ever the poet speaking? Or are all poetic voices more properly unreliable narrators, after all?...