The Weather in Normal by Carrie Etter
PBS Winter Recommendation 2018 Jonathan Edwards The rest of the book

The rest of the book is filled with voices: of children

exhibiting the startling imagery and dramatic play for which she became known

the very brink of things

and the values and meaning that we assign to each

The Weather in Normal by Carrie Etter <br><b>PBS Winter Recommendation 2018 </b> Jonathan Edwards The rest of the bookCarrie Etters fourth poetry collection focuses on her hometown of Normal, Illinois, in the American Midwest. The Weather in Normal is not a set of straightforward memories but a slowly shifting entity, like a moving storm. The book opens with Night Ode, a poem set on a single street at night, the protagonist walking and feeling the oppressive summer heat, the humming of cicadas and the various ages she has walked the same road: sixteen, nineteen,