Corvus and Crater
Corvus and Crater, Erin Coughlin Hollowell’s third full-length poetry collection is published by Salmon Poetry. Each poem in Corvus and Crater is a lens, a tractate, the short alphabet of light, a meditation. Begun from a limitation—54 poems with 54 syllables to commemorate a birthday of the same number—these poems move with raptor focus through the Alaskan landscape. The weather erases, offering a space for the writer—into and away from home, into rituals and remembering, in an attempt to locate. Through brush and into frozen air, Hollowell maps footsteps, water shifts, rivering constellations, and tree limb visitors. These pared down poems are deeply felt. Their vigil will stay on you “Like a blunt print / of a careless god’s thumb.”
Erin Hollowell
- Salmon Poetry
- 9781915022318
- pages
- €12.00
- Paperback
- Ireland
- Poetry by individual poets
