How to Baptize a Child in Flint, Michigan
Sarah Carson

Winner of the 2022 Lexi Rudnitsky Editor’s Choice Award

In her second poetry collection, Sarah Carson continues to bring the reader into territory others shy away from, and does so with delicacy and brilliance. Her powerful How to Baptize a Child in Flint, Michigan, inspired by her own upbringing in Flint, is an eye opening and emotional collection of poetry that effectively brings the reader in to the generational experiences of living, working, and loving in Flint, Michigan.

“Salvation, like clean drinking water, is not promised in Carson’s Flint, a forgotten, hardscrabble city with ‘coals for hands’, whose ‘eyes are open wounds’, where ‘every/ evening is a set fire.’” —Anne Barngrover

Sarah Carson was born and raised in Flint, Michigan and now lives in East Lansing. She is the author of a previous poetry collection, Buick City, and three chapbooks.

Paperback / $15.95 (Can $21.50) / ISBN 978-0-89255-563-5 / 64 pages / Poetry