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Let's End This Now

In Let’s End This Now, Jessica Barksdale presents poems that look at the underside of things, the dark parts we might want to avoid but can’t, at least not in this collection. Whether the poems are about motherhood, family, love, work, grief, and joy, we are brought into elements of each topic we had not yet considered. Full of voice, humor, and honesty, these poems yank us into deeper awareness.

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When We Almost Drowned

When We Almost Drowned contains award winning poems that grapple with issues of family and love, sisters and parents. The speakers in these poems see the joys and ravages of love and life as well as the humor in all.

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The Burning Hour

The Burning Hour is a story of the volatility between tradition and public necessity. On one side, the Mapps, a fiercely independent Native American family, who fight back as government agencies ignore treaty agreements and try to exert control over Mapp family land. On the other, Nick Delgado, a young wildland firefighter for the Bureau of Land Management, searches for his own place in a world that teeters between alien and achingly familiar. Faced with the driest fire season on record, the Mapps must place their trust in a government less than honorable, while Nick struggles with regulations and familial expectations to become the man he needs to be.

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Grim Honey

The hardest sweet is sharp to the tongue, painful, cutting, and often divine. The poems in Jessica Barksdale’s collection Grim Honey follow thin paths of grief, up through steep switchbacks and down the rocky declines into the meadows, where for a moment, we can pause and remember before moving on. The speakers in these poems open to their sorrows and passions and then push forward into stories that—while understood—are still evolving. Barksdale moves through issues of family, love, and death, delving into what is beautiful as completely as what is not to show the fullness of life.

These copies have been bruised during shipping, but are whole and intact. Selling for the price of book rate postage.

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