Shapeshifter: Poems

L.E. Bowman’s latest collection Shapeshifter aches with the soft sorrows and hard-won joys of life.

Melodic and introspective, Bowman’s poems converse—struggling with grief and hopelessness while fighting for love and recovery. Shapeshifter grounds the reader in the body, ever transforming with age and experience. Reckoning with self-image, heartbreak, and motherhood, this collection emphasizes the beauty in mundanity—the journey that is life.

Bowman’s Shapeshifter embraces the fear of an ev...