Elevators: Rena Rosenwasser

Crow Reviews welcomes HK Rainey, and her review of “Elevators”, by Rena Rosenwasser. Kelsey Street Press. 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Up Rising: Rena Rosenwasser’s Elevators

 

I wanted to hold onto up, space of the

 

future, new building

 

You

 

               –  Rena Rosenwasser, Elevators

All manner of bodies can be seen as physical structures: our bodies are houses, our art is a cathedral, relationships are pieces of architecture buried under layers of miscommunication, missed opportunity and regret. Nowhere is this more clear than in Rena Rosenwasser’s newest collection of poetry, Elevators. In these poems, the narrator is a traveler, a lover, an artist, an archaeologist, expounding on and exploring the physical structures that we have built with our own hands.  Continue reading