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

with cover art by Basil King

whose specimens stare back from their cases: the Snowdon rainbow beetle

the very brink of things

Roger Robinson

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,