Portada

YOU ARE NOT LOST IBD

FINISHING LINE PRESS
10 / 2021
9781646625772
Inglés

Sinopsis

You Are Not Lost peels the soft and hopeful places of young life while expertly making applesauce. Jeri Frederickson uses the familiar scaffolding of a sonnet crown and everyday objects as a channel to nurture love and access beauty while questioning the experiences that hold us together. After life?s questions receive unfulfilling answers: 'press it down' and 'Your future life / is free. No refunds' the poems untangle first-loves, family, and climate change by looking inward, turning the questions over and over as the speaker used to do apples: 'Tonight are you the crunching sound? / Are you my friend? I?m not ready to miss you.' Jim Daniels, author of Gun/Shy, says of these poems 'surprise and sustain, keeping us delightfully off-balance with their sharp wit and surprising vulnerability.' Even as trauma stitches through experiences, the collection refuses contemporary trauma labelling as adequate. 'I have set my childhood nightmares / a place to rest their leather heads.' Xochitl-Julisa Bermejo, author of Posada: Offerings of Witness and Refuge, says 'the strength of her poetic voice is a reminder to all who read that within the roots of ancestral wounds, there is space for growth.' The speaker in the poems realizes she can?t banish trauma or force a resilient narrative. Instead, laughter and hope hold hands with trauma and walk together with the reader, finding their way into the future, not lost.

PVP
17,15