// published in 2018
// sale price $0.85
// poetry |
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| by Elena Botts // a Pen & Anvil chapbook |
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Elena Botts is the author of the collections we’ll beachcomb for their broken bones, a little luminescence, and the reason for rain. Connect with her via her website.
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“you can put these summer berries on your plate and eat them / you can wile away this night and tomorrow’s too”
// (a lock of hair)
Eleven poems are gathered here, conveying gratitude, yearning, and wonder in their various refractions of lived experience. |
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| Acclaim for the poetry of Elena Botts: |
Rose Maria Woodson: “In Devoted, Elena Botts creates a haunting landscape, ‘the place where we are forever arriving' steeped in sorrow, sadness, yet nevertheless continuing. Her striking imagery leads the reader through death to solace. This is an evocative journey.”
Sydney March, Associate Editor of The Potomac Review: “The dynamism of her imagery powerfully combines tenderness with ferocity.”
Robert Milby: “Often, in modern poetry, pathology is glorified as if suffering is not universal in this troubled age. Botts surpasses longing and allows her reader to hike with her through urban gardens of people, and countryside, wherein their voices and afterimage are more than memory, but nearly a spiritual offering.” (reviewing epochs of morning light)
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| About this chapbook series: |
These bite-sized booklets are a mouthful of literature each, intended to be read in a single sitting. When you’re done with one, pass it along! Look for them lying around in Boston, Portland, or New York City. When you see one waiting to be read, go ahead and pick it up. Give it a home in your hands for a ten-minute lit snack. Then when you’re finished, leave it behind for the next person to find, in an ATM lobby, on a train station bench, in the coffeeshop, at the pub.
To request a single copy of any chapbook in the series, or a set of copies in bulk quantity so you can pepper them around your neighborhood, just contact the Pen & Anvil Press and we can put a plan together to mail some over to you. You can reach us via the good folks at the Boston Poetry Union, at 139 Mt. Vernon Street, Fitchburg MA 01420. If you don’t have a stamp, feel free to send us an email.
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