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Devoted
“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.
“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.
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.”
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)
Devoted by Elena Botts is one of Pen & Anvil Press's Komma series of chapbooks, bite-sized booklets that are a mouthful of literature each, intended to be read in a single sitting.
Eleven poems are gathered here, conveying gratitude, yearning, and wonder in their various refractions of lived experience.
“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.
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.”
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)
Devoted by Elena Botts is one of Pen & Anvil Press's Komma series of chapbooks, bite-sized booklets that are a mouthful of literature each, intended to be read in a single sitting.
12 pages, Unknown Binding
Published January 1, 2018
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