‘Low, humble, obscure’?* No longer.
An attractive trio of limited-edition chapbooks meditate on grief, selfhood, memory, and catastrophe. —Steven Ross Smith reviews Summoning, by Jacqueline Bell (Salt Spring Island: Raven Chapbooks, 2025) 22.95 / 9781778160387, Modern Words for Beauty, by Mary Ann Moore (Nanaimo: House of Appleton, 2025) $25.00 / 9780978347499, and Day Song, by Sharon Thesen (Vernon: Broke Press, 2024) $12.00 / 981738725380