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 Within The Space Between by Stacy Cartledge
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Stacy
Cartledge brings a new voice to American poetry that is at once lyrical
and erudite.
These poems explore the space between passion and physics, singing of
the textures of
geometry and the mathematics of love. In one section, Cartledge
describes the “vectors
of motion” in a relationship; in others, he examines how physical
artifacts inscribe a
landscape with the sacred. In all the poems, he combines a spareness of
style with
a rich allusive base and a delicacy of sound. Sonia
Gernes
The zoom function of Cartledge’s poetic sequences
renders the intimate
cosmological and the cosmological intimate: “the way that small space /
contains a whole world.” Equally at home among fractal logics as beside
the
histories of myth and religion, this is a learned and urgent writing
which at
its best is a welcome antidote to some of the more orthodox ironies of
recent poetry. Keith Tuma
From the sensual math of its topography through the nostalgic eroticism
of its map of
names to the excavations and rebuilding of its tableaux, Stacy
Cartledge’s Within
the Space Between is a
beautiful book. John Matthias
Stacy
Cartledge
Stacy
Cartledge lives in Pennsylvania, raises a family, and teaches at
Delaware County
Community College. In his poetry, mythos rubs the margins of
science, trying to find
the truth and hope lodged inside the quixotic. His poems ruminate
philosophies of what
is in between––between feeling and movement, between thought and
intensity, between
sex and action and love, between beginning and repetition. He can
be found online
at http://faculty.dccc.edu/~scartledge
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