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Prayer for the Sorrowful Brain
Paperback
ISBN13: 9781639807550
Publisher: Kelsay Books
Published: Aug 14 2025
Pages: 104
Weight: 0.33
Height: 0.25 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English
Uncertainties and pain, I know those are the truths about life. But Carol Graser's Prayer for the Sorrowful Brain helps me find strength and courage to keep going. At times heartbreaking, humorous, or surreal, Graser's poetry commits to describing the world, whether nature or people, in some new light. Ultimately, her poetry breaks through the chaos and clatter of life and finds what came before, not poetry but the source of poetry.
-Bunkong Tuon, author, Koan Khmer and What is Left
Carol Graser weaves fanciful imagery with grim realities in her remarkable new collection, Prayer for the Sorrowful Brain. The poems are sorrowful, yet also witty, strange, and magical. An icicle blinks, loosens, and makes a daring leap. A car prepares to be sold bolt by bolt. A woman gives birth to a tree. The fairy tale scenes mirror real-world dramas that unfold in grocery stores, parking lots, and hospital rooms. Prayer for the Sorrowful Brain is one of those rare collections that combine heartbreak and laughter. I'm dazzled by Graser's dark language of miracles, and will return to these poems again and again.
-Jackie Craven, author, WHISH and Secret Formulas & Techniques of the Masters
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