Taming the Butterfly by Elizabethe Kelley

By Elizabethe Kelley

The poems during this assortment inhabit permeable worlds via narrative voices that stroll via an Appalachian and local background that's indelible between tales so frequently excluded from the heritage of yank tradition. They name jointly one other trip frequent to writers, traversing historical via modern texts, in order that writing, itself joins right into a dialog with the earlier that's continually earlier than us, anticipating a destiny we can't see from inside our personal cocooned human event.

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