Publisher: Mwanaka Media and Publishing, Zimbabwe
prose poems
£18.00
About the author
Elena Botts grew up in the Washington DC area, lived briefly in Berlin
and Johannesburg, and now attends college in upstate New York and NYC.
She is a poet, writer, and artist. She has been published in over a
hundred literary magazines over the past few years. She has won four
poetry contests, including ‘Word Works Young Poets’. Her poetry has been
exhibited at galleries in the Hudson Valley and DC areas, as well as
across the country. Check out her poetry books, “a little
luminescence”, through small press, Allbook-Books (2011), “we’ll
beachcomb for their broken bones” through Coffeetown Press (2015), “the
sadness of snow” through Transcendent Zero Press (2017), and a poetry
chapbook through Red Ochre Press (2013). Additionally, her visual art
has won several awards and she has started making sound and moving image
art.
Review
“In poet and artist Elena Botts’ new poetry
collection: epochs of morning light, we see a shimmering, variegated
new voice; we hear: “where the trees still talk to each other, and
winter feels like a song…” (from When I have died we will be here). We
feel the weather of her emotions; a contract with the ethereal and the
visceral, as when we stand within the short but large poem: blossoms
back to under the earth: “I felt your ghost move through me out past the
Baltic as though you had been in my heart the whole time.” In this
sensual canvas, beauty never suffers from loneliness, nor the sublime.
Each poem herein as Botts wanders memory and weaves tapestries of word
worlds, reveals a true and original voice in modern poetry: allowing
light to conquer darkness; darkness to defy the estate of the sun, and
colors mixed in ways only an artist of the pen could fathom…”
Robert Milby, Hudson Valley New York poet, Poet Laureate, Orange County, NY 2017-2019