Nōmenclātūra Quitab Editions Connie has the courage to

Connie has the courage to reach for healing

Elenbogen offers this plea: “Dear language / Don’t abandon us just yet / the icicles have melted / words are our only weapon”—a weapon we can wield to secure

to my mind

Mindock’s is the voice we need to hear at this very moment

Hold onto these poems the same way you hold onto the burning world

Nōmenclātūra Quitab Editions Connie has the courage toIn Nmencltra, a wonderfully imaginative collection of interwoven persona poems, Christine Klocek Lim invites readers into a world filled with fire, flight, and the fantastic. The 26 poems are spun like fairytales and arranged in alphabetical order, each named after a character with a story of escape or suffering that is simultaneouslysupernatural and corporeal. Indeed, these poems hold profound grief beneath theirdelight and magic: a girl flees a boy