Praise for Lucifer:

Richard Carr’s Lucifer is the devil everybody knows. Mick the Bastard and Juliet are frighteningly familiar, too. Lyric reflections on wild, willful abandon, Carr’s latest sequence limns a dark, doomed life with only a hint of the silver believers pray lines blue-black storm clouds when they loom overhead.

—Brian Beatty, author of Duck! and host of You Are Hear

Lucifer is not a dark companion. He is the dark companion, a useless blanket keeping you only more wet in the rain—yet you won’t take it off. It’s a cloak, after all, an illusion of protection that sometimes we need, if only because it’s so familiar. With Richard Carr’s Lucifer, we peel the blanket off and see it for what it is—in Carr’s case, brilliance. Dark, dangerously beautiful, savage in its salvation.

—Paula J. Lambert, author of The Sudden Seduction of Gravity and The Guilt That Gathers

In Lucifer, Richard Carr achieves what both any good fiction writer and any good poet strive to. He draws us into a sharply defined world and makes us care about its inhabitants, doing so through language that is true to that world yet transcendent: “Juliet’s shirt buttons are fragile, holy wafers. / I take one in my mouth, press it with my tongue tip, / pull the shirt taut like a white kite, / and let it go.” Lucifer challenges us to love the unlovable and commit the unthinkable, all while it sings in our ears.

—Darci Schummer, prize-winning poet and fiction writer

Richard Carr grew up in Blue Earth, Minnesota, and now lives in Minneapolis. His writing has appeared in Poetry East, Exquisite Corpse, New Letters, Painted Bride Quarterly and many other journals. His chapbooks include Our Blue Earth(runner up in the Texas Review Press Robert Phillips Chapbook Competition), Butterfly and Nothingness (a poetry hypertext published by Mudlark) and Letters from North Prospect (winner of the Frank Cat Press Poetry Chapbook Award).

His full-length poetry collections are Fitzpatrick (Broadstone Books), Grave Reading (Unsolicited Press), Lucifer (Logan House Press), Dead Wendy (FutureCycle Press), Imperfect Prayers (Steel Toe Books), One Sleeve (Evening Street Press), Ace(Word Works Books), Honey (Gival Press), Street Portraits (Backwaters Press), and Mister Martini (University of North Texas Press).

His honors include the Holland Prize for Lucifer, the FutureCycle Poetry Prize for Dead Wendy, the Washington Prize for Ace, the Gival Press Poetry Award for Honey, and the Vassar Miller Prize for Mister Martini.

Lucifer
Richard Carr
Perfect Paperback: 66 pages
Logan House (December 2, 2013) $16
ISBN-13: 978-0976993599