Angele Ellis’s obsession with remembering the past ...results in a tremendous variety of poems—narrative, lyric, narrative-lyric blur, prose poems—and flash fiction pieces—which differ widely in style, tone, and length... We are privileged to enjoy the writings of such a talented, caring, versatile author. Readers will also want to linger over Under the Kaufmann’s Clock in order to savor the photos by Rebecca Clever. —Eileen Murphy, Crab Fat Magazine [T]he city’s many histories, both public and private, emerge in non-linear glimpses and portraits, lyric moments and micro-narratives... The approach to these moments is tender, curious. The poems follow these ghosts, haunt them even, and appear to feel the tenderness is mutual… —Sally Rosen Kindred, Pittsburgh Poetry Review The mixing of prose and poetry in Under the Kaufmann’s Clock is used very effectively...a true blurring of the genre lines that makes the collection...feel connected and complete. The underlying Pittsburgh imagery also provides a unifying through-line, present even in the works that aren’t overtly about the city... The works in this collection will be of a special interest for anyone with a connection to Western Pennsylvania, but the emotions and themes explored are certainly not limited to that narrow geographic focus. It is a very accessible collection... —Jessica Simms, After Happy Hour Review Clever’s black-and-white photos are thematically and compositionally interesting, giving readers pause to consider connections... Ellis’ strong writing...veers between prose, haikulike epigraphs and narrative poems. In “Landscape,” Ellis highlights the city’s vistas, writing of “[t]hat first hint of gold in the Tubes / when you come through / at night: then trumpets / of daffodil lights, / lifting Pittsburgh like spring.” UtKC effectively revolves around the four seasons, with subject matter ranging from memories of past relationships to a Phyllis Hyman concert at the Stanley Theater in 1979. —Fred Shaw, Pittsburgh City Paper The hybrid collection of poems and flash fiction is...a lyrical, nostalgic tour of Pittsburgh’s past and present culture, and of Ellis’s personal loss, pain, and intimacies. —Christiana Dillard, Pitt Magazine Under the Kaufmann’s Clock sings with the soulful urgency of Phyllis Hyman. Angele Ellis, one of Pittsburgh’s chief troubadours, uses Kaufmann’s Clock as a potent metaphor for how time is a form of betrayal. This great collection speaks against erasure and pays tribute to...a forgotten world in which “crumbling cigarettes [are] burnt offerings to the rush hour bus” and...resourceful boys entertain themselves by fashioning toy gun “barrels & triggers from Wonder Bread.” —Jonathan Moody, Olympic Butter Gold and The Doomy Poems Meet Angele Ellis Under the Kaufmann’s Clock and she will show you everything Pittsburgh—from Schenley Park golf course at midnight and an artists’ colony in Oakland to sunflowers growing in sandy Garfield dirt...city landmarks and personal landscapes where love is lost and lives implode like Three Rivers Stadium. In Ellis’s book of poetry and prose, with evocative photographs by Rebecca Clever, is a beloved timepiece and a poet’s sure hand that strikes memory. —Paola Corso, The Laundress Catches Her Breath and Catina’s Haircut: A Novel in Stories Angele’s writing pulls me back to Pittsburgh and its nesting boxes of past-in-present. Organized by seasons, her poems and flash fiction hold the paradoxes of stillness against the constant evaporation of the present moment. Intimate texts are laced with the kind of detail that make fiction ring true... Side doors of dream unexpectedly slip open in Under the Kaufmann’s Clock . Let this work haunt you! —Jessica Fenlon, Manual for Wayward Angels and Spiritual Side Effects