North Window - by Emily Axelrod (Paperback)

About the Book

Book Synopsis

North Window is the second book of poems by Cambridge, MA poet Emily H. Axelrod. Her first book of poems, Passerby, was published by Antrim House Press in 2015. Ms. Axelrod writes about fleeting moments embedded in memory, about family life, the natural world, and life on a small island in Maine. Her poems are informed by her childhood in California, and by her strong visual orientation. Ms. Axelrod's work has been published in the Galway Review, the Muddy River Review, and she was Poet of the Month in the online Goodreads poetry contest, and a winner of the Cambridge Sidewalk Poetry Contest in 2019.

Review Quotes

Emily Axelrod's fine ear transmutes the world as she sees it with her fine eyes into memorable poetry. And luckily for the reader, she is a world traveler, both geographic and psychic. Indeed, each of her poems is a journey, often a roundabout one, to the reader's heart. From intimate, sad, never cloying recollections of childhood to poems fierce with latent sensuality, she takes the reader's hand and leads them, almost always gently, into insight. Her rhythmic verses are often deceptively simple, belying the complexity of what Robert Frost called "the ulterior," the meaning behind.

--Alec Solomita is a critic, fiction writer, and poet. He's published fiction in the The Mississippi Review, Southwest Review, The Adirondack Review, and The Drum Literary Magazine (audio), among other publications. He was shortlisted by the Bridport Prize and Southword Journal, and named a finalist by the Noctua Review. His poetry chapbook, Do Not Forsake Me, was published by Finishing Line Press in 2017. He lives in Massachusetts.

Emily Axelrod's poems are scintillating, occasionally fragmental--pieces of a bigger mosaic. They are sometimes very personal, alternatively--relate to the general condition of the world and nature, but they are always the ones you turn to because of the pleasure they deliver.

--Katia Kapovich is a biligual Russian poet, celebrated in both Russia and the United States. She has won two Russian National Literary Awards and received the US Library of Congress Witter Bynner Poetry Fellowship. Her two books in English are Gogol in Rome (2004) and Cossacks and Bandits (2008), both published by Salt Publishing. She also co-edits Fulcrum, an annual of poetry and aesthetics.