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This Side of The River by Ilyssa FormanThis Side of the River is Ilyssa Forman's debut chapbook and takes readers on a journey through landscapes of grief, using the natural world and built environment of New York City as prisms and guides for understanding the speaker's internal state. The chapbook focuses primarily on a break up and its aftermath as the speaker reckons with the emotional abuse and infidelity that she experienced. In This Side of the River, the poet and the natural world

She lives with her husband and daughter in New York City

unwinding our concept of identity and being through a strange

In what ways do mourning and longing echo each other

more surreal

“All of our guests are a field of families we have gathered / as flowers

writer and educator

Babette is subversive

A strident critique of middle-class complacency

and certainly one of the most important books ever published about New York City

class warfare

a world unto herself

Think of Milky Ways of waterdamage on the bedroom ceiling