Publisher's Synopsis
The second collection from her debut Heart Poems series, Scarlet Retrograde is the melancholic companion to For Hearts of the Wilder Kind: Poems From Appalachia. In Scarlet Retrograde, Bella Bankes takes us on a journey through shadow and identity with poems that confront themes such as: self-worth, heartache, aging, psychological impacts of social media, and the Appalachian socioeconomic climate.