An ode to the great escape, this chapbook explores the themes of getting away and coming home. “The heart wants to travel.”
"This Cabin, by Lisa young, is a collection of spare and striking poems that jump right in, investigating the tension between being in the moment, and being in the mind." —Kate Marshall Flaherty, author of Reaching V
"She excels at one of poetry’s key magical acts: fashioning silence into words." —Stephen Humphrey, author of Blue Angels
Lisa Young’s poetry and fiction have appeared in Jones Av., Misunderstandings Magazine, Quills, and Rampike, among other journals. She is a former fiction editor and senior poetry editor for Existere. She belongs to several long-standing writing groups in Toronto, including the Plasticine Poetry Collective and Moosemeat. When the Earth is her first poetry collection.