Empire: The Land Beneath Our Feet

By C Louise Williams

Coyotes and wildfires, mountain streams and smog, and rows of brand new track houses along the edges of sun-baked foothills. This is the backdrop of C. Louise Williams' chapbook "EMPIRE: the land beneath our feet", a strange, picturesque mixing of suburban California life and natural, unromantic splendor. Inspired by her childhood experiences in the Inland Empire in Southern California, C. Louise Williams uses poetry to delve into a world of traffic, ferocious wind storms, and the quiet paradoxes found at the edges of suburban expansion. The immersive imagery and surreal private experiences captured in this short poetry collection offer both a satiating escape and a challenge: to recall with distant fondness the shadows of those places we once called home, and to relish the wild of our own imagination.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1542805406
• ISBN13: 9781542805407
• Release Date: February 2017
• Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
• Length: 34 Pages
• Weight: 0.14 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.1" x 6.0" x 9.0"