"Marina Carreira’s Dead Things and Where to Put Them takes up Mary Oliver’s mantel with exquisite poems about baby rabbits’ 'buttoned eyes and tiny ears, bodies / sleek with new fur and soil,' a 'white, worm moon / wriggling her big belly across the backyard grass,' and '[t]he glimmering eye of a doe greeting the morning with a yawn.' Carreira goes a step further by placing her nature poems in the context of pandemic, patriarchy, whiteness, and a working-class girlhood in Newark. In 'Litany for Surviving,' the speaker reflects on '[w]hat a privilege it is / to own this imagination. This safe, white skin. How dare I think of summer, / streams, and fauna when so many have yet to know freedom of such things?' This is not just a poetry book—it's a guide for how to love in this broken world."
— Claudia Cortese, author of Wasp Queen

"Through her deft lyricism and unflinching honesty, Carreira transforms the weight of loss into a symphony of resilience by tenderly excavating the intersections of familial love, cultural memory, and echoes of the past that refuse to be buried. Vivid and unforgettable, her poems span a mother rabbit mourning her lost young, the bittersweetness of geraniums in freshly turned soil, and the quiet resilience of daughters becoming their own. With Dead Things and Where to Put Them, Carreira doesn’t just give us poetry; she offers a map for navigating the in-betweens—between life and loss, joy and sorrow, the rooted and the fleeting, what exists and what may come. This collection doesn’t just move—it marks, reminding us of all the places we can carry what we’ve lost."
— Angelique Zobitz, author of Seraphim