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Confronting the Elements: A Poetry Collection
Confronting the Elements is a full poetry collection by American Poet, Samantha Terrell, which pays poetic tribute to three of the four natural elements – fire, earth, and air – whilst exploring the spiritual and social impacts of the human relationship with the world around us.
Confronting the Elements features original artwork by Scottish artist, Jane Cornwell. It follows Terrell and Cornwell’s collaborative illustrated chapbook, Keeping Afloat (2021), which showcases the fourth element – water.
Confronting the Elements features original artwork by Scottish artist, Jane Cornwell. It follows Terrell and Cornwell’s collaborative illustrated chapbook, Keeping Afloat (2021), which showcases the fourth element – water.
99 pages, Hardcover
Published May 13, 2023
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Samantha Terrell
15 books13 followersSamantha Terrell is an American poet, author of multiple five-star collections, and curator of SHINE Poetry Series, which features her fellow contemporaries from around the globe. Terrell is an active member of in-person and online poetry communities, and her poems have been widely anthologized in publications including: 100 Subtexts, Door=Jar, Eunoia Review, Fevers of the Mind, In Parentheses, Poetry Quarterly, The Orchards Poetry Journal, and others. She has been a Forward Prize nominee (2024), a Pushcart Prize nominee (2023 & 2024), and was shortlisted for the Anita McAndrews Poets for Human Rights Award (2021). Terrell and her family reside in Upstate New York where she cherishes sunbeams splattered on a hardwood floor and the quiet after snowfall.
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July 29, 2023
Samantha Terrell’s Confronting the Elements is an invitation to gentleness and a scream against the follies of a doom-courting era. The poems flow with punch and purpose, tell us of hands bound behind backs while
the well-oiled,
Political machine in its smug glory
Moves on.
The collection is enriched throughout by the artwork of Jane Cornwell, created as a direct response to the words on the page. In the case of Terrell’s poem Circular Thinking, Cornwell’s industrial painting Ineous, Grangemouth serves to strongly accentuate the sense of urgency conjured.
A tree
Does not fear for a
Lack of leaves
There is a holistic cohesiveness to the book, as demonstrated by the mantra-like Debunking Destiny and the continuation of its calm assuredness through Pine Cone Prophecies and into the rolling rhythm and rhyme of Latency, which made this reader think of water gently trickling down a mountain stream.
Confronting the Elements is impressive not only for its unflinching outspokenness, but also for those moments of serenity, cradling and fortifying all who read for the turbulence yet to come.
the well-oiled,
Political machine in its smug glory
Moves on.
The collection is enriched throughout by the artwork of Jane Cornwell, created as a direct response to the words on the page. In the case of Terrell’s poem Circular Thinking, Cornwell’s industrial painting Ineous, Grangemouth serves to strongly accentuate the sense of urgency conjured.
A tree
Does not fear for a
Lack of leaves
There is a holistic cohesiveness to the book, as demonstrated by the mantra-like Debunking Destiny and the continuation of its calm assuredness through Pine Cone Prophecies and into the rolling rhythm and rhyme of Latency, which made this reader think of water gently trickling down a mountain stream.
Confronting the Elements is impressive not only for its unflinching outspokenness, but also for those moments of serenity, cradling and fortifying all who read for the turbulence yet to come.
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