EAST COAST BLUES is one young woman’s meditation on the meaning of home. These poems slip across seasons and state lines, chronicling the speaker’s move from a place of isolation to a place where she can belong. The speaker is quiet but attentive, rendering her surroundings in sharp detail and pulling her readers deeper into her life, introducing them to someone new—human or animal—with each turn of the page.

As tender as it is sad, EAST COAST BLUES, at its core, simply asks its readers to care for each other. After all, what do we owe others if not our compassion? What do we owe the earth if not our devotion? What does it mean to make a place your home if not to love the ones who inhabit it?

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