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Rooming with Elephants
Paperback
ISBN13: 9781639806843
Publisher: Kelsay Books
Published: Feb 11 2025
Pages: 116
Weight: 0.36
Height: 0.28 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English
-Marc Alan Di Martino, poet and translator of Day Lasts Forever: Selected Poems of Mario dell'Arco
In Rooming with Elephants, Weiss bends our gaze like a prism toward the larger world, daring the shadows that always follow light. There is vulnerability here, and courage. I want them to hear a not-so-distant hunger, Weiss writes, I need them to know what may come next. As mother and poet, Weiss shows us what she's learned to carry, in a moment, in a season that often comes calling with grief. When I say I'll keep you safe, she says, what I mean is, I'd move tomorrow-and it's something every parent understands with a ricochet of knowing, of hunger and hope.
-Rebecca Brock, author of The Way Land Breaks
In Rooming with Elephants, Julie Weiss grapples unflinchingly with the weight of what it means to be a parent in our world. These poems resist the urge to cleanse the air with sweet fables and instead give voice to the realities of fear, darkness, and even despair with uncompromising candor. No one showed me the lies / I'd rinse off my mouth / when I became a mother, she writes-and the gift of this collection is embedded in that honesty: each sharp line break, every raw confession, crafts a powerful portrait of a mother's clear-eyed devotion.
-Emily Patterson, author of To Bend and Braid
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