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Kim Fahner Reviews Conversations with the Kagawong River

Kim Fahner reviews Conversations with the Kagawong River by sophie anne edwards in periodicities : a journal of poetry and poetics.

Of the collection, Fahner says: “One of the most beautiful aspects of the book is that Edwards ventures out into the landscape of the river, leaving paper letters in the middle of bunches of cattails, or floating around the petals of water lilies, revisiting them afterwards—at intervals—to see if they are still there, or if they have decayed because of their exposure to the elements. She makes sketches and takes handwritten notes, documenting the decomposition of the paper letters over time. All of this, when a reader takes time with the book—returning to read it more than once—adds to the overall understanding that the elements and weather patterns are holistically part of the natural world and environment of the Kagawong River.”

Read the complete review here.