Then Winter (Editors Selection/Frost Place Competitio)

Poetry. Women's Studies. Editors' Selection from the 2016 Frost Place Chapbook Competition. Then Winter vividly traces the speaker's journey in a psychiatric treatment facility. With precision and honesty, Honum cuts through the climate of silence surrounding mental illness and treatment. These fiercely intimate poems draw the reader into the boundaried world of a psychiatric ward, where moments of darkness exist alongside moments of humor and deep connection, and render the natural world beyond the facility's windows with piercing mystery and beauty.