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What is Giving Them All Away about?

Kristin Laurel has a ton of lived experience and a heart sized to match, which is the only way you can make poetry from some of the desperate and extreme scenes she has encountered in her other lives as an ER nurse and mother. She has witnessed and coped with situations that would make the average middle-class poet faint dead away (the present writer included), and written unflinching, unforgettable poems about them. Unfailingly honest, brave, and life-affirming, Giving Them All Away announces the arrival of a wild, fearless, passionate, and generous talent. This book will burn itself on your memory. --Thomas R. Smith, author of Waking Before Dawn and The Foot of the Rainbow Kristin Laurel, in the first full-length collection of her work, hands over the stories and images of her life with such intensity, and with such a matter-of- fact tone in her voice that we readers are swept into the book as if falling into a river of memories. We are carried downstream, beguiled by her powerful desire to write the tragedies, examine the decisions, celebrate the moments of calm and beauty, and most of all carried by the human wisdom in her words. I look forward to all the poems Kristin Laurel s

Author

Kristin Laurel; James O Connell

Publisher

Evening Street Press

Published

2012

Language

EN

ISBN

9781937347093