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Daniela Elza and Arlene Ang

“Slow Erosions”

These poems are part of a poetry chapbook written by Arlene Ang and Daniela Elza and published by Collusion Books: “slow erosions” | $15.00 | 24pp, 8″ x 5″

Arlene Ang’s poetry collections include Banned for Life (2014), Seeing Birds in Church Is a Kind of Adieu (2010), and Bundles of Letters Including A, V and Epsilon (2008), co-written with Valerie Fox. Her poems have appeared in Ambit, Caketrain, Diagram, Poet Lore, Rattle, and Salt Hill. She lives in Spinea, Italy.

Daniela Elza’s poetry collections are the book of It (2011), the weight of dew (2012), milk tooth bane bone (2013), and the broken boat (2020). In 2011, she earned her doctorate in Philosophy of Education from Simon Fraser University. Born and raised between three continents, Daniela is used to crossing borders and dwelling in liminal and in-between spaces. To date, she has worked with over thirty collaborators.

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