Glint

Review From the Back CoverIn Glint, Carole Symer traces the rhythm of a long love story with flashes of sights, smells, and hints of inside jokes--the way intimacy truly unfolds. By sharing it, she has given us a gift of pure pleasure. —Monica Banks, ArtistA glint is a small flash of light; to slip, slide, or gleam; to shine with particular attention. The poems in Carole Symer's debut chapbook, Glint, are radiant, hot blooded, self-assured, and infused with potent energy. She begins with a fragment of Sappho and ends with a standing wave. Along the way there is marriage, international adoption, food, flowers, and "the scent of human soft". You may laugh out loud as you read this work. You will recognize honest truths. —Holly Wren Spaulding, author of Familiars Carole Symer's chapbook, Glint, is human and full of movement. Birdsong delivers sudden richness to moments of heartbreak, made complex with family, children, and the fleshy, full-grown perspective of the narrator. There are no half-felt emotions here, only deep wells of what it means to be alive and in relationship with others. Symer will cook you miso soup and make you think of love. —Amber Edmondson, Poet, Book Artist, and owner of Wild Pages, Traverse CityCarole Symer's poems wrap frames, intimate junctures and truths in which one catches the "glint" of radiant life filled with love, moments of motion, heat, and energy. Between family, children, and life's abundance of complexity, Symer can cook or write something spicy and hot, and bring you a sweet smile. —Ariel Sun, Designer, ArtistHow such a voice could be made possible in a series of experimental, minimalist lyrics that borrow their fragmentary edges from none other than Sappho is the great accomplishment of Glint. Here is I, of the 25 Roman-numeraled sections that comprise the chapbook: wouldn't it be just like our baby to come on a Sunday in August traffic you mimicking Nurse Ratched and me relieved it wasn't my sister's cooking that poisoned the evening swooning under yellow hospital light for one more lick of ice and you Tesoro oddly content with cold hospital ziti...From the get-go, these compelling splashes of life are offset by the large, scientific questions of the 21st century. An address to the infant in the very next poem casts "a mother's antibodies" as "the language of water," suggesting that Symer, a practicing psychologist, keeps one foot planted in the sciences, the other in the humanities. This is a stance that humanizes science and sciences humanness. —from Harbor Review's Senior Reviews editor, Cameron Morse, author of Bad Astrocytes About the AuthorCarole Symer is a practicing psychologist who works with adolescents and young adults, from whom she learns the exquisite effort it takes to language a life. Symer also teaches at New York University and has authored nearly a thousand neuropsychological evaluations to help neurodiverse learners fulfill their civil and human rights and discover more pleasure in daily life.Symer's essays, articles, and poems have appeared in Across the Margin, Black Fox Literary Magazine, Dunes Review, Michigan Chronicle, Sky Island Journal, The Passed Note, Wild Roof Journal, and elsewhere. She is the 2020 recipient of the Anne-Marie Oomen & Katey Schultz Interlochen College of Creative Arts (ICCA) Creative Writing Scholarship. She is the author of the chapbook, Glint (Small Harbor Publishing, 2021). Product Description Radiant, hot blooded, self-assured, and infused with potent energy.In her debut chapbook, Glint, Carole Symer strikes a tone brimming with human warmth, humor, and glimpses of what's real inside the high stakes of a long love story--and oh it's so intensely real! Accentuated by an experimental, minimalist form, she weaves birdsong with sarcasm and pop culture into a sense of how intimacy truly unfolds. There's fla