Elsewhere, That Small

Monica Berlin Free Verse Editions Edited by Jon Thompson Information and Pricing 978-1-64317-149-4 (paperback, $14.99); 978-1-64317-150-01 (PDF, $9.99). (c) 2020 by Parlor Press. 112 pages. Bookstores: Order by fax, mail, or phone. See our "Sales and Ordering Page" for details. What People Are Saying Sit and stay a while in the strangely familiar rooms and landscapes that Monica Berlin’s Elsewhere, That Small construct for us. Let Berlin stop the clock, just for a few seconds, so we can take stock of “the ordinary seen & seen / -through” of our day: a doorframe warped by humidity or an over-pruned tree. Here, we weather cycles of loss and recovery; here, we dwell in the contrary senses of belonging and longing to be elsewhere. Berlin’s beautifully structured and incisive poems ask us to face—and to marvel at—the brute force of the world’s ongoingness. More so, Elsewhere, That Small offers a lesson on how to region here—that is, how to accept, how to endure—as Berlin writes, “May