Each Darkness Inside by Kristin Brace

$14.99

 

With poignancy and precision, Each Darkness Inside expertly examines the everyday invisible thing: a childhood memory, a daydream of another place, the lingering effects of illness in the body, “…[a] stranger’s radio [playing] softly [on] the other side of the wall.” The lasting gift of Brace’s insightful poems is this: the reader can’t help but start to see the subtle significance of—and to better appreciate—the exterior world around, the interior world within.

–Colleen Alles, author of Induction: Poems for My New Daughter  

 

With the ephemeral moments she paints in her chapbook Each Darkness Inside, Kristin Brace transforms everyday objects and places into small, but mighty masterpieces. With her vivid and visceral renderings of the seemingly ordinary (a child’s marble, wilting roses, a placid lake, and a peculiarly-edited art book), the poet encapsulates moments, holding the reader in an altered realm of time and space. It is in these moments, tiny raindrops among many, that we are invited to explore a painterly world of love, grief, and what it is to be human.

–Brooke Harris, Poet & Educator

 

In Each Darkness Inside, Kristin Brace lovingly offers a field guide to existence. With care and balance, Brace catalogs the joys of life while navigating the traumas of living. She helps us thread the intimate tension between our bodies, language, and the natural world. Each poem blooms and shudders, reminding us that our rapture and sorrow share the same afternoon light.

–Rob Kenagy

 

 

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Each Darkness Inside

by Kristin Brace

$14.99, paper

978-1-63534-941-2

2019

Kristin Brace writes poetry, fiction, and children’s literature and is the author of Fence, Patio, Blessed Virgin (Finishing Line Press, 2018). Her poetry manuscript Toward the Wild Abundance received the 2018 Wheelbarrow Books Poetry Prize and is forthcoming from Michigan State University Press.

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