I Am Not An Erosion: Poems Against Decay

by Shilo Niziolek

I Am Not An Erosion: Poems Against Decay is a micro chapbook of collage poetry. Shilo uses her own medical records, prints of her own images, and magazine material to create poems that seek to take back power from her own medical history which is plagued with chronic illnesses and trauma. These pieces speak against the narrative that those with pre-existing conditions lives are somehow worth less, that they are not as full. The collection asks us to look closely at the world and our own magic just by existing in it.

11 pages, ebook

Published July 29, 2022

About the author

Shilo Niziolek is the author of the memoir Fever, the poetry collection atrophy, and the short story collection, Porcelain Ghosts, all through Querencia Press. She has a chapbook of essay, A Thousand Winters In Me, with Gasher Press, and two micro chapbooks of poetry, Dirt Eaters with Bottlecap Press and I Am Not An Erosion: Poems Against Decay with Ghost City Press. Shilo is a writing instructor at Clackamas Community College and facilitates creative writing workshops with the Literary Arts. She received her MFA from New England College and is the co-founder and Editor-In-Chief of the literary magazine Scavengers. She lives in Portland Oregon but hopes to one day move into the woods.

Reviews

[Brittany · Rating 5 out of 5]

A beautiful, moving portrait of a woman who has taken back her own narrative.

[Becky Lauer · Rating 5 out of 5]

A creative collection! Many great things to come from this author. I’m hooked!

[Paula · Rating 5 out of 5]

Written in sparse and haunting prose, these poems reflect the author's refusal to allow her chronic illness define who she is.

[Shilo · Rating 5 out of 5]

Okay, okay, maybe I am biased.

[Catherine Kyle · Rating 5 out of 5]

A beautiful, thought-provoking collection of collage poems that reflect on embodiment, grief, and love.