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Keep/Discard
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ISBN13: 9781639807437
Publisher: Kelsay Books
Published: May 12 2025
Pages: 56
Weight: 0.19
Height: 0.13 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English
What do we choose to inherit from our flawed families? Is it even a choice at all? In Jackie Shelley's Keep/Discard, we are presented with a meditation on generational grief. Shelley's poems, like the nature of memory itself, sometimes float away from the margins, jump forward and backward in time - all connecting to create our messy personal history and a legacy that is more than an attic full of artifacts caked in dust.
-Ben Hyland, author, Shelter in Place
You'll return to Jackie Shelley's Keep/Discard again and again, first to appreciate the stunning images, such as Tonight, I will gnaw / on the bones of the dead, the dreamy / aspirations of mud, and as crickets grieve. Then you'll go back to Shelley's pitch-perfect poems that bring lost family members and treasured objects to life, and be stirred by unexpected questions and insights in these intelligent, inventive poems.
-Barbara Daniels, author, Talk to the Lioness
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