Dark Braid: Poems

by Dara Yen Elerath

Winner of the John Ciardi Prize for Poetry, selected by Doug Ramspeck. Through the use of imagination, fairy tale and persona Dark Braid bridges the universal and the personal by focusing on the body, problematic relationships, illness (both mental and physical) and feelings of being an outsider.

Genres: Poetry

85 pages, Paperback

Published November 17, 2020

Reviews

[Matthew Pridham · Rating 5 out of 5]

Powerful, luminous visions of pain, pleasure, and melancholy etched in fable and fairy tale. Elerath’s poetry speaks through spiders and cantaloupes, pencils and bloody wounds. There’s a dark alchemy at work here, transforming the mundane into the heart’s secrets.

[Cody Stetzel · Rating 5 out of 5]

Full review forthcoming. :-)