Foundlings and Other Misfits collects 41 poems and 15 short stories that represent observations of families, children, and the ironies of daily life conundrums. . .It's a synthesis of experience that blends flashes of humor with serious inspection of evolving from a foundling to honing a life purpose. Estelle Gilson provides a vivid inspection of life which shines in poetry and prose alike. (Her) ability to weave anger and observation into humor to provide a taste of something different is one of the facets that connects her poetry and prose pieces to keep them lively and fun.

The result is a powerful literary and psychological inspection that lingers in the mind longer after the collection's final short story.

Midewest Book Review

Foundlings & Misfits is a collection of poems and stories by Estelle Gilson, a poet & translator, who has been internationally awarded, yet is angry and lonely, after the loss of  Saul, her physician-poet husband of many years. 

Now in her nineties in the irony of having long-outlived her partner, in an assisted-living facility, she looks back on her life with Saul and her engaging with the literature of many cultures—French, Hebrew Italian—and writes in poetry and story of those memories which flash like a motion picture show, all expressed here in this touching collection. 

Publisher/Cross-Cultural Communications