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Beauty Still Lives Here
Paperback
ISBN13: 9781639807178
Publisher: Kelsay Books
Published: Mar 6 2025
Pages: 100
Weight: 0.32
Height: 0.24 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English
Beauty Still Lives Here speaks to the core of anyone who has longed for more. The best art takes you on a journey into yourself, and the slow build of metaphors and images in Folsom's collection does exactly that. This collection is a must read.
-Jacinta V. White, publishing editor, Snapdragon: A Journal of Art & Healing and author of Resurrecting the Bones: Born from a Journey through African American Churches & Cemeteries in the Rural South
The domestic and the spiritual hold hands every day. That is the overall message of Kelsi Folsom's startling new book Beauty Still Lives Here. In each poem a woman peers into the mirror and sees / the work of staying strong and shows the reader the marvels of mothering, of stumbling through the daily hardships of life, while also finding deep wells of beauty in the daily presence of God. The speaker wonders Can all the quarters / flying on the wings / of wishes make / an impact at the / bottom of a fountain? This collection, with its heart open to beauty and hope, answers: Yes.
-Sunni Brown Wilkinson, winner of the 2024 Donald Justice Poetry Prize
Readers will find a restful and soulful companion in Kelsi Folsom and her poems that beckon us to pay attention and consider the ways we inhabit our bodies, our relationships, our places, and beyond. I hope you appreciate her invitation to deeper noticing as much as I do.
-Charlotte Donlon, spiritual director, gatherer, and author of The Great Belonging: How Loneliness Leads Us to Each Other
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