Sign-In
Cart
Grafted Tree: Family Poems
Paperback
ISBN13: 9781639803804
Publisher: Kelsay Books
Published: Aug 16 2023
Pages: 46
Weight: 0.18
Height: 0.11 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English
Written by a poet at her peak, Grafted Tree above all will resonate as a love letter to all kinds of family experience, written with understanding, compassion, and truth. As she writes in the book's concluding poem, I carry their history; /it has shaped mine/ My breath, my spirit/a bridge where/ they stand now/They wave to me/through the mist.
-Jan Marin Tramontano, Poet and Novelist, Author of The Me I Was with You
Grafted Tree is a book about transformation, memory and love. Judith Prest takes us through her deep understanding of adoption, marriage and identity as a wife, mother and what it means to be a sister to newfound brothers. There is a longing for wholeness, for cure, for the compassion it takes to heal not only herself, but the world. And she succeeds in bringing these poems to fruition not only for herself, but for us as well.
-June Gould, Ph.D., Author of The Writer in All of Us, E.P. Dutton. She is also a long-time workshop leader for The International Women's Writing Guild, and a published poet and novelist.
Judith Prest brilliantly maps her poetic genealogy in her third book, Grafted Tree. Her writing offers familial depth in a diverse selection of form and emotion as she explores each surprising and glorious branch of Grafted Tree.
-Suzanne S. Rancourt, Author of Billboard in the Clouds, murmurs at the gate, Old Stones, New Roads, and Songs of Archilochus
Also from
Prest, Judith
Also in
General Poetry
Dante's Vita Nuova, New Edition: A Translation and an Essay
Pitavy, Francois
Alighieri, Dante
Paperback
Sounding the Seasons Enlarged Edition: One Hundred and Ten Sonnets for the Christian Year
Guite, Malcolm
Paperback
Lao Tzu: Tao Te Ching: A Book about the Way and the Power of the Way
Le Guin, Ursula K.
Lao Tzu
Paperback
They Bloom Because of You: Poems on the Infinite Love, Growth, and Magic of Motherhood
Urlichs, Jessica
Paperback
This Is the Main Event: Discovering the Life You Long for in the Life You Have
Smith, Joshua Luke
Hardcover