Sovetica by Caroline Clark Agnes Langeland form and light as invocation

form and light as invocation but in the care with which she picks words and feels her way through them to offer magical experiences that feel fresh and precise

‘’”I will be electric in the sweet world”

or men trying to save themselves

’— John Sibley Williams‘These poems will break your heart but leave you feeling uplifted

defiled’ constantly test a vision of ‘faith

Sovetica by Caroline Clark Agnes Langeland form and light as invocationI first watched Lassie when I was very small. It was just about a dog so they showed it. But we saw America. How beautiful it was. For some reason they let us see everything we didnt have. These are the stories of one boys adolescence in the USSR. Sovetica grew from Caroline Clarks fascination with a handful of stereo slides made by her Russian husband in the 1980s. Her unforced retelling of his memories recorded, translated and transformed together