Love as Invasive Species by Ellen Kombiyil

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Love as Invasive Species by Ellen KombiyilEllen Kombiyil writes out of the unsettling complexity of how we see ourselves and others changing from generation to generation. From grandmother to mother to poet daughter, Kombiyil voices the shifting manners and morals of working class women as they struggle to come to terms with their own sexuality, child rearing, domestic life, the world of work, aging, illness, physical debility, and death. Everything is put to the test in these poems,

She also teaches in Manhattanville’s MFA program

what grants identity in a damaged

through both a chorus of named women boxers and a single fighter battling for her selfhood

Julianne Neely

and a Best of the Net nominee

they’re dissonant—and in their tension Hong finds the key to the questions that haunt her

” Haas thinks through the idea of a poem from its barest building blocks—the one line haiku

-Hannah Bonner

In this unflinching and lyrical book

while Pulitzer Prize winner Natasha Trethewey explores decolonizing enduring metaphors

” she writes

each selection is accompanied by an explanatory note designed to complement and clarify the text and to put pleasure back into the experience of poetry

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