The Quiet Year

The Quiet Year is a chapbook collection of poetry and artwork from Seattle artist Laura Allen. It features selections from her 2016 oil collage series based on the poem Cities by H.D. as well as a dozen new original poems. Excerpt from the title poem: ...the green gets over everything like a false rind a quilt like pale lichen crept from the edges of rocks shoes discarded paper. it keens in color. it is excessive. it hides within its own trending entropy: it's popular and all the cool kids have it like a new mycelium under the skin...