<p>Eve Linn's debut collection, <em>Album of Not</em>, examines the female experience through poems that channel women whose lives defied the patriarchy: Frida Kahlo, Sarah Bernhardt and Francesca Woodman. At its heart <em>Album of Not</em> concerns itself with <em>the not</em> - not what never existed but the excision of what existed: "Excise the image. / Leave only a perfect silhouette." The speaker is "the scribe of battered stars" who has to memorize her own son and buys a photo album "...to pretend / I had a past." This remarkable collection confronts the perpetuity of loss through poems that are often surreal and always arresting.</p><p>- <strong>Cindy Veach</strong>, author of <em>Her Kind</em></p>