Words Take Shape

’Ethereal, otherworldly, primal, Words Take Shape is a thoughtful exploration of body, mind, spirit, and how these interact with the external.’

Daragh Fleming
Writer & Author

Ashley Roncaglione’s poetry collection Words Take Shape is a visceral experience, each line exquisitely shaped to pull you deeper into her world. Her form and language evoke geological cycles of expansion and contraction-letters are compacted like dense earth sediment, words drip off the page like cascading water. There is an aliveness to her work, a hypnotic arrhythmic beat, that stretches our understanding of fracture and connection, presence and absence, irrevocable love and loss. Words Take Shape is a powerful body of work with an electrical pulse that will leave you breathless.

Hannah Levy
Founder of literary journal The Rebis