In her debut collection, Ashley-Elizabeth Best explores the cultivation of resilience during uncertain and often trying times. It's a book built around day-to-day conflicts - poems about love, family, grief, power, and longing. Navigating the fault lines of popular culture and traditional poetry to assert that we are all history makers, Slow States of Collapse enters the landscape of personal narrative in an attempt to reconcile life's little universal griefs.
About the book
In her debut collection, Ashley-Elizabeth Best explores the cultivation of resilience during uncertain and often trying times. It's a book built around day-to-day conflicts - poems about love, family, grief, power, and longing. Navigating the fault lines of popular culture and traditional poetry to assert that we are all history makers, Slow States of Collapse enters the landscape of personal narrative in an attempt to reconcile life's little universal griefs.