Akers, Ellery: A Door Into the Wild: Poetry and Art

Blue Light Press, paperback Publication Date: September 24, 2024 Publisher Marketing: Winner of the 2024 Blue Light Press Book Award, A Door into the Wild is both a celebration of California landscapes and a meditation about love, loss, and the healing power of nature. In this collection of prose poems and drawings, multifaceted poet and artist Ellery Akers offers the reader a profound tribute to the Earth. "It is rare to find an artist who can wed their mark-making to the music of their poetry. Ellery Akers is one of these exceptional creatures. Her book, A Door into the Wild, is a sublime conjunction of word and image and an invitation to the reader to participate in an extraordinary conversation between dazzling drawings and subtle, heart-rending poems. This book is a gift."- Gary Young, author of Even So: New and Selected Poems and That's What I Thought "Ellery Akers is a poet and a naturalist, and a devoted observer of the natural world. Her drawings have the casual authority of t