// published in 2019
// sale price $0.85
// poetry |
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| by Abagail Petersen // a Pen & Anvil chapbook |
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Abagail Petersen is a rock climber, a novice bookmaker, and a student in the Iowa Writers' Workshop. A graduate of Boston University, she is a past Art Editor for Burn literary magazine. Find her on Instagram @abbyrileyp, and on Twitter @abbazzabba.
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“It’s early // & I’ll reveal how many ways the body bends in the wet grass.”
Equal parts museum and striptease, Still This House explores the ways that personal intimacy—familial and romantic—can be expressed through our relationship to the land and city, to the home and the body. These five small poems reflect both the large ways we grow with others, and the even larger ways we never get the chance.
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“Mango Skins” was a finalist for the 2018 Puerto Del Sol Poetry Contest. “No. 6 (Violet, Green and Red)” appeared in Hawk & Whippoorwill magazine in 2018. The painting appearing on the cover, “Genevieve” (2012), is used with the kind permission of artist Mary Sauer.
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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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