ELEGIES OF HERONS

Graceful and beguiling, Elegies of Herons distils hope from nature in Wetzel's luminous poetics of tristesse. Sarah Wetzel is the author of the poetry collections The Davids Inside David, most recently released from Terrapin Books, River Electric with Light which won the AROHO Poetry Publication Prize and was published by Red Hen Press in 2015, and Bathsheba Transatlantic, which won the Philip Levine Prize for Poetry and was published by Anhinga Press in 2010. When not shuttling between her two geographic loves -Rome, Italy and New York City -she is Publisher and Editor at Saturnalia Books and a PhD Candidate in Comparative Literature in the CUNY Graduate center in New York City.