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In ecology, an edge habitat is a dynamic liminal space where two adjacent ecosystems meet and merge. Touching on landscapes, climate change, memory, mental illness, and motherhood, Elizabeth Moore's poems invite us to inhabit our own raw edges with empathy, openness, and humor, asking what it means to live meaningfully and hopefully in a world perpetually on edge. Edge Habitat gives us nature poetry of a new order, looking to the tangled borders, brambly hedges, and midden heaps of our world to find meaning and connection. It is a love song for anyone who has ever felt caught in between-and for all of us longing for some kind of home on the brink.

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Elizabeth Moore deploys great skill, humor, and a poet's ever ready eye to spin up songs of mystery and meaning out of her everyday life and the world around her. The result is a first chapbook of poems that are magical and wise. -Michael Ansara, author of The Hard Work of Hope. A Memoir, Cornell University Press and What Remains, Kelsay Press In Edge Habitat, Elizabeth Moore's debut poetry collection, she writes from that tender place inside where grief, joy, and survival meet. These poems live in the bramble, in the seam between forest and field, in the 'place between fear and wonder.' Moore is a poet of precision and abundance, tracing the body's transformations, the small ecologies of motherhood, and the porous boundary between the human and more-than-human world. Her lush language is lush without excess, musical without embellishment-always alert to the ache and beauty of living. Whether she's gathering milk in a blizzard, listening to a crow argue with a man, or watching her child lean into a patch of wild raspberries, Moore shows us that the edge is not a limit, but a place of return. -January Gill O'Neil, author of Glitter Road

Author Information

Elizabeth Moore is the author of The Truth and the Life (Alternative Book Press), and her poetry has appeared in Pangyrus, Print Funeral, Boston Literary Magazine, and Mass Poetry's The Hard Work of Hope series. She lives with her husband and two sons in Massachusetts.

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