“These poems are filled with both ferocity and gratefulness,
each one an invitation to “get close and see” what is here—sometimes beautiful, sometimes unwanted.”
—ROSEMERRY WAHTOLA TROMMER,
author of The Unfolding and host of The Poetic Path
each one an invitation to “get close and see” what is here—sometimes beautiful, sometimes unwanted.”
—ROSEMERRY WAHTOLA TROMMER,
author of The Unfolding and host of The Poetic Path
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From the coniferous mountains of Eastern Oregon to the lush tropical mountains of Puerto Rico, Amelia Díaz Ettinger writes in a voice that witnesses both beauty and rupture—climate and political turmoil, cultural dislocation and intimate reckonings.
The collection moves through the layers of nature and human experience, where deer step into silence, wildfire smoke settles over valleys, voices clash at a writer’s workshop, and the ghosts of homeland call from across oceans. Díaz Ettinger’s lyric eye embraces the liminal—the space “between layers, between blood and skin, between the legacies of memory”—making vivid the connections and fractures that shape who we are. PRAISE FOR BETWEEN
What a pleasure to watch the poems of Amelia Díaz Ettinger deepen with close observation and clarity over time. Her latest collection, Between, shows us a poet unafraid to become one with the land she has come to both love and respect, each new poem offering us “an unexpected plenitude/not of ruin/but solace.”
—JAMES CREWS, author of Turning Toward Grief and Breathing Room
In Between, Amelia Díaz Ettinger invites us into the nuanced layers between solitude and connection, between silence and the call of an owl, between what we were taught and what we know, between our past and our present. These poems are filled with both ferocity and gratefulness, each one an invitation to “get close and see” what is here—sometimes beautiful, sometimes unwanted. I admire her precision, her attentiveness, her curiosity as she explores motherhood, citizenship, the body, language, and the natural world. These are poems that both ground us in what is here and reach toward what else might be possible.
—ROSEMERRY WAHTOLA TROMMER, author of The Unfolding
and host of The Poetic Path |
About the AuthorAmelia Díaz Ettinger is a bilingual poet and writer whose work spans poetry, fiction, and essays, often exploring themes of bicultural identity, language, displacement, and family. She is the author of Learning to Love a Western Sky, Speaking at a Time/Hablando a la Vez, and These Hollowed Bones, as well as the chapbooks Fossils on a Red Flag and Self Dissection. Her newest book, Between, continues her lyrical exploration of cultural inheritance, memory, and the spaces we navigate to find belonging.
Her poetry and prose have appeared in numerous literary journals and anthologies, and she has presented her work across the country. A 2025 recipient of the Edna L. Holmes Fellowship for Young Adult Fiction through Oregon Literary Arts, Díaz Ettinger lives in rural Oregon, where she writes, teaches, and tends to a small farm with her partner and too many pets. www.ameliadíazettinger.com |
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