Book Bag: ‘Past Repair’ by Carol Edelstein; ‘Awakening’ by Stephanie Shafran
Past Repair by Carol Edelstein (Simian Press)
Northampton writer Carol Edelstein wears a number of hats, especially as a longtime writing workshop leader. She and her husband, Robin Barber, also run Gallery of Readers, a nonprofit group that organizes readings for area writers and publishes books and broadsides, with an eye to aiding both emerging and established writers.
Edelstein is also a poet, fiction writer and essayist whose work has appeared in a wide range of literary magazines and anthologies including The Massachusetts Review, The Georgia Review and Denver Quarterly. Now she has a new poetry collection out, “Past Repair,” that looks at love, loss, the mysteries of nature and the pull of memories.