Inner Sky Quitab Editions -Nicole Callihan

-Nicole Callihan

Shaw invites us into a stark mirror of ourselves

At one moment

These kinds of items become iconic by the end of the book

Inner Sky Quitab Editions -Nicole Callihan"I am alive," Lori Desrosiers asserts at the end of her harrowing, potent, and necessary chapbook, Inner Sky, which details a cage formed by domestic abuse. In poem after poem her fluctuating pronouns expose blurred boundaries (between self and other, beloved and despised) typical to the abuse dynamic. Her re visitation of past tragedy and its players comes at the reader forcibly in the form of "wire cutters," "bitter beets," an "ice crow," and "the