Like the Fog, by Carmen Frech Oliveri

Poetry, chapbook, 36 pages, from Bottlecap Features.

Like the Fog is the image of a woman, telling her story with the voice of a country whispering in her ear. The voice of other women, other centuries, other selves. Reading Like the Fog is not unlike being in the writer’s dream. You wish that you knew how to wake up or how to remain asleep, in a place where nothing is certain, except the sureness that we all wish to be alive, to be loved, to be forgiven.

A sample of the writer’s ability to weave themes of nostalgia, surrealness, death, trauma, love and the inevitable mutability of existence. In her own words, she writes the poems that needed to be written, if only for the virtue of being read once.

Carmen Frech Oliveri is a Nicaraguan native, bilingual writer, speech and language pathologist and mother of two. You can find Carmen’s work in the literary press Spillwords, short story dispensers as well as on her social media page (proclama poeta).