The Disappearing Letters

Winner of the 2005 Perugia Press Prize, Carol Edelstein's new book of poetry, The Disappearing Letters, approaches familiar poetic themes love and loss with intuitive animation. The poet takes a direct view of the oblique and a slanted look at the obvious, creating a landscape with springs of great joy and also dry places where loss, wistfully remembered, is confronted and transcended. Edelstein is a poet of the first order; she can harness her innate spontaneity to produce finely wrought, imaginative poetry. The Disappearing Letters is an elegy to what's come before us and a celebration of the living.