The Botanical Garden

In Ellen Welcker’s debut collection The Botanical Garden, she meditates on the boundaries of nations, of worlds, of oceans as well as the complexities of motherhood. Welcker’s long poems ask us to think about the way in which bodies occupy space, ontologically, physically, and emotionally. Foreword by Eleni Sikelianos.

I feel so grateful to live in a world that has books such as The Botanical Garden. Lyric elegy, futuristic science fiction, aliens and whales, Oulipian listing. It is all here in this beautifully moving book — Juliana Spahr author of Well Then There Now and Everybody’s Autonomy