"Deep Dive looks back at life-through eloquence, beauty, truth, and pain-to finally accept the reality of Carter's estrangement from herself...She replays her life story, beginning with childhood trauma, and in her later years, bridges the path of enlightenment and self-awareness..."
-Sandra Fluck, Editor, The Write Launch

"...Karen Carter asks us to dive deep into the natural world and dive even deeper into our suffering, courage and healing. If your heart wants a companion as it dives deep into the grief and ashes of life where at the bottom of the dive there is healing and hope and newness of life to be found, then this book will become your treasured friend, a candle when the night wind blows."
-(Rev) Curtis M. Abbott, D.Min, LPC, LMFT. Co-Founder of The Center for Psychotherapy, Education and Spiritual Growth, Inc. in Oklahoma City.

"Deep Dive, explores the power of location, of finding one's place in the everydayness of our lives. Her poems give voice to the wordless ones...She ventures into the borders of her past life by investing in the present moment...at once deeply personal and invitingly interpersonal, letting us experience what it means to be a woman, alone in her home, a professional, caught up in the diurnal routines of teaching, and a spiritual being attentive the world around her. She is inviting us in her poems to take her hand and come with her, to see what it is to be in the world, to feels one's feet in the grass. We experience the rich array of what it means to be alive in these times and are better for it.
-Bruce Spang, author of The River Crossed (Wisdom Press, 2024)