Hooked by Elizabeth Keggi

Elizabeth Keggi’s speakers inhabit shadows and margins.  They are quiet, whether by choice or by design, yet their stories pulsate with life and take shape in bold ways, always contained in restrained, well-crafted verses.  Throughout Hooked, she explores not yet-ness, almost-ness, and becoming, in images at once familiar (overdue library books, a rabbit cowering in a hawk’s shadow) and rendered as profoundly meaningful signs of what we all experience on the edges of literal and metaphoric seasons.  These are poems that invite readers to look into the corners of rooms, the shadows, the cast-off objects, and the underexposed figures in photographs, where life happens—relentlessly.

–Emily Bowles, author of The Satisfactory Nothing of Girls and His Journal, My Stella.