
Red Ocher Reviewed in Ecotheo Collective
“a lyrical, elegiac contemplation of loss, yearning, and unrequited love, a slow burn of a book that will lodge itself inside you as lived memory.”
“a lyrical, elegiac contemplation of loss, yearning, and unrequited love, a slow burn of a book that will lodge itself inside you as lived memory.”
“The poems, like traumatic memory, riot and distort, name and unname. A dazzling debut.”
—Natalie Eilbert
Finalist for the 2025 Miller Williams Poetry Prize
In these poems, writes series editor Patricia Smith, Kolchinsky “clutches at a feeling of home that is both unfamiliar and deeply treasured.”
“Adele Elise Williams brings a radical femininity and realness to the page that is uniquely hers.”
Saba Keramati writes about the hopes, dreams, characteristics, and experiences that form the self but that also stir up more mysteries…