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Everyday Omens
Paperback
ISBN13: 9781962405676
Publisher: Sheila-Na-Gig Editions
Published: Feb 15 2026
Pages: 84
Weight: 0.24
Height: 0.20 Width: 5.50 Depth: 8.50
Language: English
Kris Whorton's Everyday Omens traces a life's journey through intimate moments of family, childhood, and personal transformation. The poems move between places--from suburban America to European cities, along Alaskan shores to Southern forests--revealing a speaker navigating complex relationships with parents, brothers, and lovers. Childhood trauma casts shadows while nature offers solace. Birds, water, and changing seasons become metaphors for the passage of time and emotional landscapes. Through precise imagery and unflinching honesty, these poems explore resilience, the search for belonging, and the courage to forge one's own path despite--or because of--what has been inherited and endured.
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