Scott, M. Elizabeth: Her Gloves Against the Mirror

B L U S H, paperback

Publication Date: December 11, 2025

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M. Elizabeth Scott, icon and scholar, makes an infinity mirror of desire, stripped and visceral, in this debut collection. Her writing dissolves the boundary between lover and beloved, showing how language binds us together even as it limits us. By turning familiar rituals of longing inside out, she reveals how surrender becomes possible. Scott’s writing is inscribed at the end of history, making ordinary objects feel charged with meaning and intimacy.

"Her Gloves Against The Mirror is an accomplishment in occult poetics. These poems are incantations, trafficking in universal hallucinations and verdant myths. Possessed by genius, Scott is a street-level ranter in a wilderness of serpents, ghosts, masks, and eros. Her verses evoke Hieronymus Bosch's fantastic landscapes and the secret language of alchemical emblems. Read this and be astonished." —Dr. J. Christian Greer

"Her Gloves Against The Mirror is an incandescent descent into the earth – a poetry of soil and bodily fluids, of the sacred in the spit. In this collection, M. Elizabeth Scott threads together phosphorescent desire, urban detritus, Greek myth, biblical echoes, and delirious prophecy, wrestling them down into the dirt to take root among the mycelia. From this fertile decay rises a strange, asymmetrical beauty shot through with flickers of feral transcendence." —Drew McDowall

"M. Elizabeth Scott's words spin you around her finger like a stray tendril of unwashed hair. These are poems bound beneath a tight corset, wandering through pre-Raphaelite gardens and piss-stained streets after a long hazy night at the club." —Graham Swon