BOOK TO SHARE – Emma Young
BOOK TO SHARE – Emma Young
BOOK TO SHARE by Emma Young
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Emma Young is a designer, printmaker, and writer living on her native Martha’s Vineyard Island, Massachusetts, where she serves as poet laureate of the town of West Tisbury.
Book to Share is comprised of works written over the last decade, both previously unpublished and selections from her own hand printed and bound chapbooks:
I Love Leaves
Ezra Pound for the Proses
Book to Share
So Soon We Shall See
Color Letters
Gazette
Tomato Skin Diamond
Goodnights
Adamantine
Two Plum Press is thrilled to be releasing this volume of collected poems. View Emma's letterpress and design work here. Read an interview and see her letterpress studio here.
excerpts:
Window Poem
I have cut an orange just so
it’s slices have bottoms like bellies and
are to eat
teeth and eyes
while I look out the window
knowing I watch the moments go snow,
then clear sun squares, shadows
orange slice
in my jaws white, it’s started
to snow again
Animals
When I am
red yellow,
exhausted by the work, do you know what
I honor in you?
You love so well
it makes all
the animals strive.
We all feel geranium red sometimes, or egg yolk, we feel yellow.
We would give
up real words,
give up all the work, and we would love like you.
