The Quiet Year

The Quiet Year is a chapbook collection of poetry and artwork from Seattle artist Laura Allen. It features selections from her 2016 oil collage series based on the poem ""Cities"" by H. D., as well as a dozen new original poems. Excerpt from the title poem: ""...the green gets over everything like a false rind, a quilt like pale lichen crept from the edges of rocks, shoes, discarded paper. it keens in color. it is excessive. it hides within its own trending entropy: itÕs popular and all the cool kids have it, like a new mycelium under the skin...""