Elegies and Archetypes – by imogene engine

This enigmatic and imagistically intense cycle of new poems bodies forth an innovative yet atavistic world of femininity, family, history, and myth, by a poet who has been with mOnocle-Lash from its beginning. A delicately crafted meditation on gender, language, and the power and intimacy of female literary traditions.

from the book:

The Grief Holder

Third eye visions, naming the names
Singing for black flames and black joy

Hymns for surviving a century of cruelty
Hymns for Lazarus brothers rising

Knowledge that one life holds generations more

The historian memorizes
She knows the deathbed
She knows our secrets

20 pgs. on folded legal. Jan. A.Da. 109. (2025 Anti-Vulgar)
$3.00 +s/h or contact to trade.