Spout Hill Press is delighted to announce the release of T. Anders Carson's newest poetry collection, I Knew It Would Come To This. This collection explores Carson's growing understanding of how his childhood traumas have affected his adult life. Carson shows us how to negotiate the dark through use of the light.
From the foreward:
Anyone who meets T. Anders
Carson is immediately struck by his joy. Being with him, being near him is a
constant reminder that life is and can always be good.
That joy infuses his poetry as you will read in this collection,
but there is more than just that here. Anders’s interior life is complex just
as is anyone’s, but his reviews (which are universally positive) focus too much
on that joy because his personality is such a force.
Anders has lived much and seen much and in many ways suffered too
much, more than a person should. He has dealt with molestation, the collapse of
much of his family, and discord. He explores all of this pain, and the joys of
a family, children, travel, and friends in this collection, which I have come
to admire so much.
Anders gives us access to joy when we meet him, but here he gives
us access to the whole range of human emotion, everything that someone might
feel in a life, and he is an artist who feels deeply. The fact that he has gone
through so much but is still so happy gives us insight on his strength,
courage, and love. His poetry is a gift that will constantly inspire and change
you.
I am so proud to call him my friend.
--John Brantingham, author of Mann of War
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