My Little Book of Domestic Anxieties by Elizabeth Sylvia
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My Little Book of Domestic Anxieties
Elizabeth Sylvia
Selected FINALIST of the inaugural 2023 KARI ANN FLICKINGER MEMORIAL LITERARY PRIZE for a poetry chapbook.
” Very accomplished writing.” Mark Antony Owen
Review by Ruth Hoberman
Elizabeth’s Sylvia’s new book presents itself modestly: My Little Book of Domestic Anxieties contains only twenty-four poems, and their tone (like the title) is low-key. But such a book isn’t “little” when it’s a forceful, principled embrace of wit, complexity and understatement. In poems that take a range of forms (pantoum, sonnet crown, shaped poems among them) Sylvia strips domestic life of its banality. The experience of being a wife, mother, daughter, beekeeper, and teacher comes across as insistently embodied and strangely unsettling.
ISBN 987-3-9525290-8-9
