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Petals of Magnolia
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Publisher Price: $19.99
ISBN13: 9781961451131
Publisher: Bainbridge Island Press
Published: Nov 11 2025
Pages: 92
Weight: 0.39
Height: 0.25 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English
A Journey Through Pain, Faith, and Transformation
In this deeply personal poetry collection, Tamarah Rockwood traces an unflinching path from trauma to grace. The first section confronts childhood wounds and the fierce resistance to healing-I am a rotten woman, / rotting from the inside. The second chronicles spiritual awakening, finding God in both the miraculous and mundane: morning coffee, kitchen windows, children's laughter. The final section observes modern life with clear eyes, from Edinburgh Castle to New York sidewalks.
Throughout, Rockwood weaves water, desert, light, and garden imagery into a symbolic framework exploring the central question: How do we release the pain that shaped us and allow grace to transform us? Her voice is both vulnerable and fierce, especially when wrestling with holding onto suffering as identity versus accepting divine love.
Petals of Magnolia is ultimately about the courage required to heal and the mysterious grace that makes it possible-a testament to transformation that is neither simple nor complete, but authentic and hard-won.
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