Emily Simon (she/her) is a student at the University of Alberta, pursuing her Masters in Library and Information Studies, and works as a research assistant at a Ukrainian Folklore Archive. She completed her Bachelor of Arts in English and Creative Writing at MacEwan University in 2022 and discovered a great passion for Old and Middle English and Victorian poetry, as well as contemporary fiction. These genres often inform her own poetry and prose. She is a co-chair of the student group Future Librarians for Intellectual Freedom, the programs coordinator for the Greater Edmonton Library Association, and a passionate advocate for intellectual freedom and freedom of expression.
“‘from Frankenstein’ is a found poem from a short passage in chapter four of Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein (1818), which refocuses the narration into an exploration of love rather than scientific discovery and power.”
“Remember, the vision of astonishment
delight
and rapture.
In painful labour,
at the summit of my desires
Not a magic scene,
I was buried with the dead and found your eyes
easily unguarded and infallible
how dangerous is he who aspires
so astonishing a power…”
