Weathering Agents, released by Beltway Editions in March, 2023 and also available on Amazon. To purchase a signed copy, email Carole at cgreenfield535@gmail.com. Give her your mailing address and she will send you PayPal info (free shipping in the U.S.).
"Carole Greenfield's Weathering Agents is a universe of the erotic. Taking us to the edge of time, Greenfield lets us know and understand geology through the always-present body. Scientific terms like 'plucking,' 'disconformity,' 'heat flow,' and 'locked fault' are translated through the universe of the ecstatic human. In turn, Greenfield touches edges of the erotic human as she speaks of the universe. Greenfield is a poet and a lover. She is also a teacher: it's apparent in her versatility, the way she uses one thing to teach us about another, and back again."
- Anne Germanacos, author In the Time of the Girls and Tribute
"These breathtakingly sensual poems take the reader through the joy and pain of passionate love -- with a man, yes, but also with language itself, with brilliantly observed details of an ordinary working day -- sunrises, birds on the lawn, an orchid on the windowsill -- with all the complications and entanglements and laughter and sadness and hope and rue that a fully lived life will yield. These poems do not shy away from danger. They dare to be honest, to go naked, and to use the natural world as metaphor and mirror, source and echo chamber for the turbulent forces of passion, time and tenderness that mark us all with their comings and goings. 'We go deep into one another,' Greenfield says in one poem, and she does, and we follow her."
- Alison Luterman, author of Hard Listening and In the Time of Great Fires
Snow Globes & The In Between, forthcoming from Lost Penny Press in August 2026.
"'Here is a book. Bite hard,'" is a line from one of the luminous poems from Snow Globes & the In-Between, but it could serve as an epigram for the entire work. Sensual, tender and intimate, these poems invite the reader into a world of earthly delights; young immigrant English learners, cozy domesticity, and passion – all interlaced with the existential dread of climate catastrophe and an awareness of mortality that brings all these treasures into sharp relief. Come for the stories and stay for the afterglow of sunset gilding the leaves on the maple tree, the scent of woodsmoke, and the delight of a child discovering new words with which to tell the stories bubbling inside her heart."
- Alison Luterman, author of Hard Listening and In the Time of Great Fires
"Carole Greenfield’s depiction of a world grounded in the senses lets us follow her to places otherworldly and distant. She gets us there precisely by remaining rooted here. As she does with the young student characters in some of these poems, she lets what’s apparently small become an entire world. As what’s small becomes large, so the world, apparently huge, becomes something we can almost hold in a hand, something we can turn, observing, delighting."
- Anne Germanacos, author of In the Time of the Girls and Tribute
"How does humanity survive in a crisis-filled, violent world? In these poems Carole Greenfield shows us: one feather, one stick, one swept up shard of glass, one dinosaur roar at a time. Attend to small wonders, the mauve of a sunset, the feel of curly hair, an unafraid rabbit, and with these tiny glories create a salve for the soul."
- Lucy Tatman, author of Knowledge That Matters and Numinous Subjects