Ella Zetsermann\'s latest collection of poetry pushes and pulls, stretches taught and snaps back upon the weight of history and the struggle to place oneself in the here and now. From her mother ' " s kitchen to medieval Granada, The Air Is Elastic follows a life exiled from the familiar into the unexplored. Season ' " s melt into ritual, raucous waxwings crash on glass and hearts are hidden in jars of jam along with the private details of our lives. Wistful and aching, loving and tender, Zeltsermann ' " s poems are charged with the potential of a coming storm.