Abbie Kiefer’s Certain Shelter, Reviewed by Elisabeth Adwin Edwards
Abbie Kiefer Certain Shelter June Road Press Reviewer: Elisabeth Adwin Edwards Once in a rare while, a poet’s book finds its way into the hands of a reader and upon finishing it the reader’s world feels changed somehow, charged with new meaning. Perhaps it’s that the themes in the work resonate with the reader so […]
Joan Kwon Glass’s Daughter of Three Gone Kingdoms, Reviewed by Elisabeth Adwin Edwards
Joan Kwon Glass Daughter of Three Gone Kingdoms Perugia Press Reviewer: Elisabeth Adwin Edwards In her powerful second full-length collection, poet Joan Kwon Glass never shies away from difficult questions. “The first Koreans were part god, part beast,” begins the final stanza of the opening poem, “Bloodline.” The poet continues, “Every morning I look in […]
Ae Hee Lee’s Asterism, Reviewed by Elisabeth Adwin Edwards
Asterism Ae Hee Lee Tupelo Press Reviewer: Elisabeth Adwin Edwards In a recent online event in which Ae Hee Lee read poems from her new, first full-length collection, Asterism, she shared that in writing it she was “engaging with the idea of longing,” which she “tried to reimagine as something that moves and expands … […]
Elisabeth Adwin Edwards – The Nurse
The Nurse You can feel his fingers can’t you wrapped in smooth blue nitrile how they taper to their ends almost feminine elegant, surprising given the ten years he’s spent holding death’s messes in his hands as he cradles your chin softly telling you Let’s load up you who may or may not hear, your […]
