To My Dreamcatcher

<p class=ql-align-justify><strong>In <em>Madness Rack and Honey</em> Mary Ruefle writes For me the moon has always been the very embodiment of lyric poetry. I see that lunar lyricism reflected by this poet. The language is mystical mythic sublime and romantic. The haunting imagery is fresh and allows for strangeness devastation and delight in a way that captures me as a reader. There's a cohesive arc in her poems a notion that these pieces are in concert to one another. The syntax reminds me of the late and great Lucille Clifton with the use of the lowercase the i woven throughout the work. In doing so this poet is thinking about her relationship to the line and to the self in a meaningful way. These stunning poems all felt like a rumbling love song and left me lit up and wanting more.</strong></p><p class=ql-align-justify><strong>-Tiana Clark judging Elizabeth Robin the 2021 Carrie McCray Nickens </strong></p><p class=ql-align-justify><strong>Fellow for Poetry Creative Writing faculty Southern Illinois University </strong></p><p class=ql-align-justify><strong>at Edwardsville <em>I Can't Talk About the Trees Without the Blood </em>(University </strong></p><p class=ql-align-justify><strong>of Pittsburgh Press 2018) <em>Equilibrium</em> (Bull City Press 2016)</strong></p><p class=ql-align-justify><br></p><p class=ql-align-justify><strong>Elizabeth Robin's <em>To My Dreamcatcher</em> is a wonderfully crafted collection of adventure acceptance loss and rebirth that leaves her readers craving more with the turn of every page.</strong></p><p class=ql-align-justify><strong>-Alexander Yucas M.F.A. Converse College Spartanburg SC <em>Tracks</em> </strong></p><p class=ql-align-justify><strong>(Converse College Press 2013)</strong></p><p><br></p><p><br></p>