NOVEMBER 15, 2021

Beyond Dread

#ThursdayThoughts LiteraryCritiques

 

This review essay on BED, Elizabeth Metzger''s prize-winning poetry chapbook (Tupelo Press, North Adams, Mass., 2021) examines her preoccupation with dread and explores her use of poetic language that is 'beyond language' to enter the hidden world of the spirit, where dread has no place.

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The first sound I heard emerging from the pages of Elizabeth Metzger’s prize-winning collection, Bed, was a cry of existential angst. Hers is a cry that sees and understands, and yet keeps asking, ‘Why?’