The World Eats Love

<p><span style=color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>In her debut collection Carol Edwards interlaces a narrative of characters bearing up under the weight of longing loss and regret. She unfolds with reassuring tenderness a spectrum of experiences: from stolen innocence to wasted time; from insidious monsters to bittersweet loneliness; from the heaviness of broken hearts to the hope of belonging.</span></p><p><br></p><p><span style=color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>She concludes with a short story-a fairy tale of sorts-to capture in prose themes woven throughout the poems.</span></p>