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Weather Inside
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Series: Miller Williams Poetry Prize
ISBN13: 9781682262870
Publisher: University of Arkansas Press
Published: Mar 2 2026
Pages: 108
Weight: 0.31
Height: 0.27 Width: 5.50 Depth: 8.50
Language: English
Finalist, 2026 Miller Williams Poetry Prize
In The Weather Inside, Stevie Edwards measures the emotional atmosphere of a mind navigating bipolar disorder, complex PTSD, generalized anxiety disorder, and alcoholism while forging intimacy and creative resilience in a rapidly declining world.
Both as someone who has struggled with mental health and as a feminist approaching middle age, Edwards interrogates parenthood and marriage: What forms of nurturing survive when traditional roles and certainties do not? Can bringing children into a collapsing world still be an act of hope? When your partner does not want children, where should you divert your surfeit of love? The poet grieves, I am chanting the name of a daughter / my husband doesn't want / enough, the child I've spent years / not being sure I deserved.
This fiercely honest and intimate collection offers a vision of adulthood shaped by the capacity to inhabit an embattled inner world. With clarity and dark wit, Edwards probes the uneasy border between solitude and connection, asserting the relationship between caring for oneself and caring for the wider world.
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