Wolfgang Carstens

Wolfgang Carstens lives in Mittinhed, Alberta, with his wife, five children, two cats and a dog. Mittinhed is a small village (population 37) situated in the heart of the Canadian prairies. It does not exist on any map, is one of the earliest immigrant communities, and was named for ‘touque,’ which is, for all intents and purposes, a mitten for one’s head. The village is primarily a farming community and consists of a community center, a general store and gas station. Mittinhed received international news coverage in the 1980’s when John Walsh (from America’s Most Wanted) tracked Sean O’Grady, the infamous “Butcher Of Boston” to a small trailer on the outskirts of the community. By the time Walsh and the authorities arrived, however, O’Grady’s trailer was nothing more than a burned out, twisted husk of metal. Nobody knows for certain how the fire started or what happened to Sean O’Grady. He remains, until this day, still at large.

Wolfgang’s first book of poetry, Crudely Mistaken For Life, was released by Epic Rites Press in March 2010. It has since been nominated for a Pushcart Prize, garnered outstanding critical reviews, placed on the recommended reading list at Small Press Distribution, stocked on the shelves in numerous libraries, and portions of the book have been translated into numerous languages, most recently Croatian.

“Crudely Mistaken For Life grows on you. Enters your blood. This is compassionate, carefully crafted poetry fascinating to read and worthy of detailed study.”
– George Anderson

“This is poetry, rich, full and brimming with life, even that wrought from the darkest corners.”
– Jack Henry

“Carstens gets it – he doesn’t waste time with the flowers; he digs in the dirt, about six feet down, to the root of it all.”
– R L Raymond

“Crudely Mistaken For Life is stunningly evocative. Be careful when you pick up this book, you might not be able to put it down.”
– Tony Moffeit

“Carstens leads the reader on a journey of life, death, and the beauty and pain caught in between. Inside these pages you will find some truth, maybe yourself.”
– Scot Young

“Crudely Mistaken for Life is a tour de force of poetic skill that you won’t put down until the sun is coming up and your tears are spent and the bottle of Petron next to you is bone dry.”
– Diana Rose

“Wolfgang Carstens debuts here with a rock-solid collection of poems where you can sense the presence of the viscera under the blood-coated muscle that is the text.”
– David McLean

“Each poem flows effortlessly into the next until you can't believe you are already at
the end of the book. The only thing I could comprehend at that point was that I
wanted more!”
– Lee Narynski

Crudely Mistaken For Life (First Edition)

20.00

Poetry by Wolfgang
Carstens
98 pages
$15.50 + shipping
ISBN: 9780981184463

Epic Rites Press, March 2010

“This book grows on you. Enters your blood. This is compassionate, carefully crafted
poetry fascinating to read and worthy of detailed study.”

– George Anderson

Reviews

http://georgedanderson.blogspot.com/2010/11/book-review-wolfgang-carstens-crudely.html

http://domesday.posterous.com/a-read-of-wolfgang-carstens-crudely-mistaken

http://www.outsiderwriters.org/2010/sleepwalking-in-the-void-a-review-by-tony-moffeit

http://www.outsiderwriters.org/2010/crudely-mistaken-for-life-the-book-of-wounds

http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_sk1D8zEP58o/TVGoKfJplMI/AAAAAAAAAPY/bghMtZxZBX0/s1600/crudely.jpg

http://clockwisecat.blogspot.com/2010/02/wolfgang-carstens-crudely-mistaken-for.html

http://www.amazon.com/Crudely-Mistaken-Life-Wolfgang-Carstens/product-reviews/0981184464/ref=sr_1_1_cm_cr_acr_txt?ie=UTF8&showViewpoints=1

http://rustytruck.wordpress.com/2010/01/29/crudely-mistaken-for-life-by-wolfgang-carstens/

Want to help spread the word? Request that Crudely Mistaken For Life by Wolfgang Carstens be stocked on the shelves in your public library.

Interviews

http://www.horrorsleazetrash.com/interviews/13-questions-with-wolfgang-carstens/

http://georgedanderson.blogspot.com/2010/11/book-review-wolfgang-carstens-crudely.html

http://www.melissamann.com/beat-the-dust.asp?bid=292

http://heroinlovesongsjournal.blogspot.com/2009/05/interview-wolfgang-carstens.html