$14.49
“Chimeras invokes an “alchemy” that turns the “shit” of quotidian life into the “gold” of, or an aspiration to, song. These poems are taut, darkly humorous, and edgy. Clare Welsh stands on the threshold of a luminous career.”
–Richard Katrovas, author of Mystic Pig: A Novel of New Orleans
“Regal and eerie, Clare Welsh’s Chimeras recalls early English poetry: its short line, alliterative phrasing, and lore. However, this abbreviated bestiary of the fantastic and common, the living and dead—swans, wolves, deer, koi, and Wind Horses—traverses a contemporary world, at times ordinary, at times post-apocalyptic dystopia. The young speaker tries to find her place here—to distinguish, if distinguishable, self from artifact in “a selfie next to the partially exposed bone.”
–Carolyn Hembree, author of Rigging a Chevy into a Time Machine and Other Ways to Escape a Plague
Rating: ***** [5 of 5 Stars!]
Chimeras
by Clare Welsh
$14.49, paper
Clare Welsh is a writer and photographer based in Pittsburgh. Her poetry can be found in The Massachusetts Review, Salt Hill, Birdcoat quarterly, and elsewhere. Her longform writing can be found in Nailed Magazine & Offbeat Magazine. Her photographs have appeared in Lenscatch, The New York Times, & The New Delta Review. Her chapbook of poems Chimeras (2015) is available through FInishing Line Press.
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