Pam Thomas Carver

Pig Stories and Poetry Volume 1 Pam Thomas Carver

From the splendor of a Texas road through the Hill Country, awash in colors of spring, to the primordial feel of night fishing on the Colorado; the quiet of a century's pandemic, juxtaposed by an American President's calloused response to the death and division he has called out. Pam Thomas Carver creates a stunning narrative of the times, as it is a perfect storm of the worst health and economic crisis of America, and the world, since the Great Depression, revealing the inequalities, the inequities, and the oppression. America is a tinderbox. There is civil unrest. There is a great divide. Climate change has brought to the forefront the fires, the tornadoes, the hurricanes. There seem to be new atrocities everyday. Pam asks and answers the hard questions. She asks is this my America, where children are separated from their parents, and kept in cages? She asks, is this my America where it's okay to cheat to win? The poet feels the pain. And as history will record it for posterity, Pam writes viscerally, doing the emotional heavy lifting, in real time. It is a Presidential election year. It is a time of vitriol, division, and deceit. The business of the Congress has been to do no business at all for the American people. It seems there is no consensus. In her poetry, Pam cries out as our democracy is threatened. Weeks before the election, Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg dies. As the President rushes to seat a third justice (in his term) to the Supreme Court, the poet sees unfairness and mean political games. But as she points out in visual verse, the games are dealing blows to the very moorings of democracy. Pam Thomas Carver calls for equality and justice as her readers say, "You're saying what I feel!"