Edge Habitat by Elizabeth Moore

“Elizabeth Moore deploys great skill, humor, and a poet’s ever ready eye to spin up songs of mystery and meaning out of her everyday life and the world around her. The result is a first chapbook of poems that are magical and wise.”

–Michael Ansara, author of The Hard Work of Hope. A Memoir, Cornell University Press and What Remains, Kelsay Press

“In Edge Habitat, Elizabeth Moore’s debut poetry collection, she writes from that tender place inside where grief, joy, and survival meet. These poems live in the bramble, in the seam between forest and field, in the ‘place between fear and wonder.’ Moore is a poet of precision and abundance, tracing the body’s transformations, the small ecologies of motherhood, and the porous boundary between the human and more-than-human world. Her lush language is lush without excess, musical without embellishment—always alert to the ache and beauty of living. Whether she’s gathering milk in a blizzard, listening to a crow argue with a man, or watching her child lean into a patch of wild raspberries, Moore shows us that the edge is not a limit, but a place of return.”

–January Gill O’Neil, author of Glitter Road