The World Eats Love - by Carol Edwards (Paperback)

Book Synopsis

In her debut collection, Carol Edwards interlaces a narrative of characters bearing up under the weight of longing, loss, and regret. She unfolds, with reassuring tenderness, a spectrum of experiences: from stolen innocence to wasted time; from insidious monsters to bittersweet loneliness; from the heaviness of broken hearts to the hope of belonging.

She concludes with a short story-a fairy tale, of sorts-to capture in prose themes woven throughout the poems.

Review Quotes

"This book, this collection of emotions calling me out, and making my eyes burn. It's beautiful. I've read so, so many books of poetry in my lifetime, and none have resonated so well within me...I feel like you peeled back my skin to expose my mind.

From a high level, and forgive me if this sounds weird, I feel like the collection is intelligent emotion. Things that we feel but dissected and analysed and absorbed philosophically and psychologically."