The Tethers Vuyelwa Carlin Broken tiles in the mirror

Broken tiles in the mirror

of Egyptian novelists Mohamed al-Bisatie and Ezzat el-Kamhawi

Waves sliding one under the other

The writings and images of those caught up in conflict or reflecting on its experience are embedded in our national consciousness

The Tethers Vuyelwa Carlin Broken tiles in the mirrorWinner of the London Festival Fringe Prize for Best First Collection 2010 American expatriate Carrie Etter's debut collection, The Tethers, introduces a compelling new voice. By turns wry, celebratory, and pensive, the poems roam from an imaginary village to Manhattan, the southwestern U. S., London, the Czech Republic, and Etter's homeland, the Illinois prairie. With a lyric intensity born of compression and linguistic precision, the travels in The