Amazon.com description: Product Description: Poetry. IN THE CARNIVAL OF BREATHING is home to eighteen lyrical poems in which land & flesh, water & lung, hope & duress converge. Here lives a narrator at once lake & lake- less, blamed & innocent, asleep & swimming. Angered, terrified, and wrecked not just by the ephemeral nature of love and breath but by her everyday—her progeny, herself—she attempts (or pretends) to make sense of life's transitions wherein laughter is darkness and lightness the heaviest loss.