Author: antwanstoltzfus
Unsolicited Press Publishes Pushcart Prize Nominee Emily Paige Wilson’s Poetry Collection, Jalubí
In what ways does lineage resemble language, and are there aspects of both which will always feel untranslatable? With Prague as a backdrop, Jalubí explores this question as it attempts to balance on the fraught fulcrum point of what in the speaker’s family history has been accurately preserved and what has been turned into a myth by way of intentional and accidental misrepresentations. Set in the shadows of witches, dragons, and a great-grandmother’s ghost, this collection suggests history itself is haunting. Like a persistent spirit, history refuses to cast itself in the sepia-toned filter of nostalgia: it’s instead, the gold ... Read more