In Atomizer, Elizabeth A.
Powell examines pressing questions of today, from equality and political unrest to the diminishing of democratic ideals, asking if it is even appropriate to write about love in a time seemingly hurtling toward authoritarianism.
With honesty and humor, her poems explore fragrance and perfumery as a means of biological and religious seduction.
Evoking Whitman's sentiment that we are all made of the same atoms, Atomizer looks toward an underestimated s.