Nōmenclātūra Quitab Editions Russell Sebring

Russell Sebring

and a tenderness toward the earth conveyed through the specificity of ordinary life

to my mind

Elenbogen offers this plea: “Dear language / Don’t abandon us just yet / the icicles have melted / words are our only weapon”—a weapon we can wield to secure

Connie has the courage to reach for healing

Nōmenclātūra Quitab Editions Russell SebringIn Nmencltra, a wonderfully imaginative collection of interwoven persona poems, Christine Klocek Lim invites readers into a world filled with fire, flight, and the fantastic. The 26 poems are spun like fairytales and arranged in alphabetical order, each named after a character with a story of escape or suffering that is simultaneouslysupernatural and corporeal. Indeed, these poems hold profound grief beneath theirdelight and magic: a girl flees a boy