Bornman’s poetry exudes a wisdom drawn from introspection and solitude that is reminiscent of Emily Dickinson’s. Bornman’s poetry reveals what readers of scripture should have seen all along: motherhood is central to the biblical narrative.
Love chooses the people and things we name first. In these poems, Trina Gaynon attempts the more difficult task of seeking names for the new and unexplored. In the process she claims the roles of first-time home buyer, resident in the troubled town of Richmond, second language tutor, writer, and church member
If you can find a way to be simple and loving and a part of community that takes care with each other in a pronounced humanistic way, then everything else is superfluous. This book was written to bring you back into that.
In Freak Show Casey Killingsworth assembles poems outlining his own freakishness, the odd jobs and shifts that earned him his living, the difficulty trying to relate to other people, even how to love.
In Close to the Surface, Bethany Lee recounts her family’s story, her own uncertain pilgrimage, and the ingenuity and courage it takes to sail over the horizon and find your way home.
These poems will carry you through the undoing to the essence beyond. You will find here a faithful companion to buoy you in the lifelong voyage of becoming.
But There’s So Much DIY in IVF That We Can’t Be Sure brings together the story of two couples, finding overlap in the grief of infertility even as their lives are seemingly far apart.
The poet leads us on a journey riddled with puzzles, on a search for the narrator. Written, as the poetry says, in a “Braille of clean air.”
Raw, vulnerable, and powerfully relatable, The Uncovering considers the universally human struggle to countenance even the deepest parts of who we are.
This book tells of a journey from terror to mastery by way of farming, and how farming’s nature-shaped vocabulary of duties and rituals may heal the deepest wounds.
