memory holes

by Erin Virgil

Erin Virgil's MEMORY HOLES is an awakening. Her collage of stories exposes the narrator's reality - a broken [w]hole revealing pictures of a shattered memory. Descend into these holes with Erin, and see humanity developing out of the darkness.

40 pages, ebook

First published January 20, 2014

About the author

Erin Virgil is a poet and essayist, presently living in northern Colorado. She has an MFA from Naropa University and her poems have been published by Fast Forward Press, Indigo Ink, Wolverine Farm, Colorado Life Magazine, and Buddhist Poetry Review. She keeps a literary sort of blog at: emvlovely.wordpress.com.

Reviews

[Sarah Schantz · Rating 5 out of 5]

I'm not sure why it took me so long to read this chapbook by my writer friend, Erin, and to her I apologize for the delay, except I don't: I think I was meant to read Memory Holes today. I think I was meant to read it now as I prepare to teach two upcoming workshop series--one of which will address the relevant themes of Lists, Habits (which includes Withdrawal), and Rituals, and the other of which includes the Moon. I've now made my own list of excerpts from this memoir that I will use for these workshop spaces. I also found material for the workshops I someday want to teach where we will work with themes like: Water, Loneliness, Holes, Brokeness, and Portals. So thank you, Erin, for this gift that will extend itself.

The writing in this "awakening" is as precise as it is gorgeous. And while the pieces weave together to form a whole that left me satisfied, I nonetheless am left wanting to read more of this author's work. And not just because she is a friend and former writing program peer, but because she is the real deal, and so is her prose.