Snow Globes & the In Between

 “Here is a book. Bite hard,” is a line from one of the luminous poems from Snow Globes & the In-Between by Carole Greenfield, but it could serve as an epigram for the entire work. Sensual, tender and intimate, these poems invite the reader into a world of earthly delights; young immigrant English learners, cozy domesticity, and passion – all interlaced with the existential dread of climate catastrophe and an awareness of mortality that brings all these treasures into sharp relief. Come for the stories and stay for the afterglow of sunset gilding the leaves on the maple tree, the scent of woodsmoke, and the delight of a child discovering new words with which to tell the stories bubbling inside her heart.