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The Bearable Slant of Light
"...A complex, compassionate, and lyrical exploration of mental illness, The Bearable Slant of Light is going to mean a great deal to a great many people."
— Maggie Smith, author of Good Bones and You Could Make This Place Beautiful
"...no form of poetic inquiry is beyond her imagination’s tenacious, tender, and skeptical engagement. On every page, the intelligence of the writing is matched by true integrity of feeling." — Poet and Writer Tom Sleigh, author of Rosie: A Memoir of Farewell and The King’s Touch, winner of the Paterson Poetry Prize.
Interview: "Accents Podcast w/Katerina Stoykova: The Bearable Slant of Light" (38 min)
This Great Green Valley
"These brave poems face the confounding tangle of desire, visionary imagination, and, yes, violence that characterized Kentucky's frontier era." — KiKi Petrosino, author of White Blood: A Lyric of Virginia
Reading: from This Great Green Valley, Carnegie from your Couch feature (5 min)
Interview: Eastern Standard, WEKU (12 min)
Kings of the Rock and Roll Hot Shop
“Through empathy and penetrating observation, Edwards goes deep inside the art of
glassmaking. What she brings back in the form of poems is fascinating – she has
absorbed and passes on to us the jargon of the guild, as well as the cautions and the
glories the “kings of the hot shop” encounter.., in poems that entertain even as they
bring us close to the heat, beauty, and danger of creation.” — Jeffrey Skinner, poet and author of Sober Ghost and Chance Devine.
Review: Kings of the Rock and Roll Hot Shop, Arts Louisville
Covet
"...witty, lyrical, commonsensical, and marvelously bold. This is a book worth coveting." — poet Kelly Cherry
The Highwayman's Wife
"What a wicked pleasure the poems of Lynnell Edwards are, with their saucy boldness, Their wild feminine bravada, their sly rhyme and clattering consonants." — Poet Cecilia Woloch, author of Carpathia
Reading: “All I Know About Love,” PBS NewsHour (2 min)
Review: The Highwayman’s Wife, Valparaiso Poetry Review
