Ebook {Epub PDF} Elegy/Elk River by Michael Schmeltzer

Elegy/Elk River book. Read 7 reviews from the world's largest community for readers. “Elegy/Elk River,” winner of the Floating Bridge Press Chapbook Awar 5/5.  · After a lovely reading at the Hugo House here in Seattle, my chapbook "Elegy/Elk River" has been officially released in the wild! For more information on the book you can head over to Goodreads, Floating Bridge Press, or here on my website where you can order directly from me. Thank you to everyone who has shown me support. Elegy/Elk River is a moving, fractured narrative told through multiple perspectives. These lyrical poems spiral through time around one common loss, ultimately asking the reader to examine childhood, memory, and what we think we know of shared experiences. Michael Schmeltzer was born and raised in Japan before moving to the United States.

Michael Schmeltzer is the author of "Elegy/Elk River," winner of the Floating Bridge Press Chapbook Award. He earned an MFA from the Rainier Writing Workshop. His work can be found at PANK, Rattle, Meridian, and Mid-American Review, among other www.doorway.ru tweets ridiculous things at @mschmeltzer Michael Schmeltzer, author of Elegy/Elk River and Blood Song. Alicia Hoffman's poems seduce us with the pleasures of life looked at with awe and wonder. She praises the virtues of awareness of the body and of the home. Her new poems are wonderfully compassionate. In her great title poem, "Railroad Phoenix," she writes an extravagant new. Michael Schmeltzer was born in Yokosuka, Japan, and eventually moved to the United States. He is the author of Elegy/Elk River, which won the Floating Bridge Press Chapbook Award, and Blood Song (Two Sylvias Press, ), which was longlisted for the Julie Suk Award. A debut nonfiction book, A Single Throat Opens (a lyric exploration of addiction, written collaboratively with Meghan.

Michael Schmeltzer's Elegy/Elk River; Books by Michael Schmeltzer. Elegy/Elk River. by Michael Schmeltzer. Floating Bridge Press Novem 40 pages. After a lovely reading at the Hugo House here in Seattle, my chapbook "Elegy/Elk River" has been officially released in the wild! For more information on the book you can head over to Goodreads, Floating Bridge Press, or here on my website where you can order directly from me. Few chapbooks pack the punch given us by Michael Schmeltzer in his 14 poem collection titled Elegy Elk River Like any elegy, Elk River is a lamentation for something lost Certainly Alex, the girl who once showed the narrator her naked chest, beneath the third set of bleachers, behind his old high school, is gone Schmeltzer s poetry is lyrical and sad, or at the very least melancholy as an.