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Breaking the Jar
by Kelsi Folsom
$14.99, paper
978-1-64662-946-6
2022
With tender precision the poems in Breaking the Jar reveal the tragic reality that from the city slums to the kitchens of restaurants, pulpits of churches, and offices of schools and workplaces, no woman is immune to the collateral damage of gendered abuse. Every move, belief, identity, job, and function of women has depended on the whims of the powers that surrounded them. In the ongoing wake of #MeToo and #ChurchToo, American poet, Kelsi Folsom, believes it’s time to write a new story for women: one in which power is put back into the right hands: hers. Driven by her own experiences of abuse, and her international engagement in recovery work with marginalized and trafficked women, some as young as eight years old, this brief collection of poetry is an unfiltered look at the harrowing path into and out of bondage—from “forgetting what it means to want out” to believing “human hands cannot lay hold the hope that finds asylum here.” Readers of poets like Li-Young Lee, Marie Howe, and Carrie Fountain, will find much to admire in the haunting lyricism of Kelsi Folsom’s work.
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