My Family Was Like a Russian Novel: poems— out from Plan B

 

Excited to announce my new poetry chapbook is out from Plan B Press.  The book has been shortlisted in several competitions.  These poems emerged from my re-reading of the novels of Dostoyevsky during the lockdown— and reognizing so many of the characters in my own family.  (“The Idiot” was my dad’s favorite novel…so it figures.)

Thanks so much to the editors of Evening Street Street Review, Neologism, Harpy Hybrid, and Gyroscope who supported these poems.  Plus, thrilled to receive this praise from one of my favorite authors:  

My Family Was Like a Russian Novel lives up to both its title and readers' highest expectations in a braided collection of delicate narrative poems…At moments haunting, at moments hopeful, and with an occasional sting in the tail, Carla Sarett’s distinctive voice pays tribute to the wonders of childhood and the loss ever-lurking beyond. Her writing, at once elegy and clarion call, seeks to enchant.

—Jacob M. Appel, author of The Cynic in Extremis

You can buy it at the Plan B Bookstore (link below)

 https://www.planbpress.com/store/p74/My_Family_Was_Like_a_Russian_Novel_by_Carla_Sarett.html