UnderscoreTender lyric poetry dedicated to two of the poet's most influential late teachers. Julie Carr's most intimate book to date, Underscore, is dedicated to two of Carr's foundational teachers, the dancer Nancy Stark Smith and the poet Jean Valentine, both of whom died in 2020. Elegiac and tenderat times erotic at other times bitterthese poems remain deeply invested in human relationships amid a life whose backdrop is human suffering. Reaching toward the