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Carrie Hunter received her MFA/MA in the Poetics program at New College of California, her MA TESOL from San Francisco State University, edited the small chapbook press, ypolita press, and is a member of Black Radish Books Publishing Collective. She has published 15 chapbooks, most recently . Her full-length books include The Incompossible (2011) and Orphan Machines (2015), and now Vibratory Milieu, from Nightboat Books. She lives in San Francisco where she teaches ESL.
"As in her first collection, The Incompossible, Hunter effortlessly
blends private dialogue with public testimony orchestrated in a
variety of forms. Orphan Machines drones a bittersweet urban lyric,
and by the end readers may also be asking themselves in public,
'Should / I fake normalcy or be real?'”—Jacket2
"This is a book of subtle curiosity, attentiveness, and carefully
balanced juxtaposition. It re-enlivens a kind of attention to
language and shows us possibility and resonant significance within
the mundane.”—Full Stop
"Vibratory Milieu is a polyglot chorus where the lines reverberate
in a sound cloud, and where we take in more than we might have
thought we could handle. It vibrates, this cacophonous milieu. The
title of this potent book makes a resonant promise that the work
delivers on."—Colorado Review"This is a book with many
entry-points, without a singular intended route. Turn to any random
page and it will feel like you’re walking into another dimension. I
enjoyed encountering it as if I was doing contact improv. My
attention and comprehension had its ebbs and flows, but I enjoyed
watching how the text blocks surged and retreated; I attended to
moments of resonance and harmonized in the margins with my own
citations and lived history."—Anomaly"Vibratory Milieu is a
high-speed polyphonic lyric suite that somehow feels simultaneously
an extension of her prior work, and yet, leagues ahead in terms of
structure."—rob mclennan"Like the eponymous teen heroine of
strategic reversals, Carrie White, Carrie Hunter wields awesome
telekinetic powers. Collaged quotations and phrases hover on the
page, spotlighting the objects of our desire, fury and incredulity.
We find ourselves somewhere within 'boundaryless metamorphosis’s
apparent borders,' a tensile and refractive echo chamber of mega
consequence. With heightened awareness of the stimulations and
fabrications at hand, we become emboldened to bring down the house
(capitalism, racial, gendered and ecological violence, etc.), an
imbricated architecture, every part, every function accumulative
and inextricably linked. In Vibratory Milieu, feminist provocation
tackles the garish and overarching humiliating features of the
omnipresent succubus that wields so many guises. 'If true
consciousness lies below the conscious level,' ease into the
hypnotic genius of Carrie Hunter’s representation of
encounter."—Brenda Iijima
"Vibratory Milieu casts a spell of ecstatic, esoteric associations,
forming unexpected neural pathways with a language that reminds us,
'the book is still a technology.' Carrie Hunter’s maximalist
collage form masterfully weaves together language and living,
acting as an antidote to the static-apocalypse all around us,
reminding its reader, 'Reality is music.' This vibrant text shakes
the body of the reader into a dance of memory, language, and
unknowing sublimation."—Angel Dominguez
"'Dreaming prepares you for clairvoyance,' Hunter writes, which in
turn prepares us for clairvoyance in the various realms of
consciousness. We are continually made to know we’re in a poem, and
that we’re likewise in a dream, awake. Hunter creates this lucid
dreamstate wherein the poem is written and we dwell there, a place
where she has dwelt, where she has made a dwelling place for us.
Where consciousness is a multifaceted gem to behold, to hold up as
we look at it, turning it around. Aphoristic in form, but cohesive
in poetic narrative, because the voice drawing together the source
fragments is so magnetic. Ripped intelligence is the phrase that
comes to mind, ripped like the way muscles are ripped, or the way a
text is ripped off. Diamond-like, dovetailed, and then suddenly,
your aura drops around your knee."—Julian Talamantez Brolaski
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