(sub)TEXT: Erin’s New Book “Avail” | The Partially Examined Life Philosophy Podcast | A Philosophy Podcast and Blog (opens in new tab)

Erin just published her first book, “Avail,” which you can order here: “Avail” features a long prose-poem which titles the book and winds through sections of lineated, often formal poems. The prose-poem comprises a series of lyric meditations on the image of the veil—from religious and cultural veils, to veils imbedded in idiom and metaphor, to veiled women in art and classic films, to veils drawn and parted by illness and death—which slowly divulge the harrowing details of the poet’s blood d...