Reading this was like a walk in a refreshing spring rain. Carter, who comes from my home county in Indiana, references a dying rural and small town culture and it's helpful to know a little about that. One poem, which is about peonies, is about decorating graves. (Peonies are a traditional Memorial Day grave flower.) Three of the poems are called tintypes and are about historical Indiana figures (Sam Bass, Oliver Morton and John Dillinger.) ( )

I felt Mr. Carter's poetry is reminiscent of Robert Frost's. That is, to me, a poetry that is tied to earth and has a warmth and richness and comfort to it. ( )