Copper and Other Precious Metals - by Elaine D McMilian (Paperback)

About the Book

Copper and Other Precious Metals is a collection of memoir poems and essays about varied life experiences. Elaine McMilian writes about family, love, loss, and finding home. Anyone reading this book will feel seen and understood.

Book Synopsis

Copper and Other Precious Metals is a collection of memoir poems and essays about life experiences, happy and sad. Elaine McMilian writes about her family, childbirth, making mistakes, love, loss, grief, nature, and finding her way home. Everyone will find something relatable, and hopefully feel seen and understood. Our relationships are integral to our survival, and as she says on the title page, "Kindness is key."

Review Quotes

"Elaine McMilian's poems capture joy and grief, beauty and pain. They wrestle with loss and betrayal, celebrate truths large and small, and explore pathways toward acceptance of life's challenges. Copper and Other Precious Metals is full of wisdom, courage, determination-and a wry sense of humor." -Sharon Blevins, writer, reader, citizen

"Using courage and memory as its needle and thread, McMilian's work sews together the story of a life through grief, acceptance, and reflection. Filled with deep intentionality and brave, accurate language, Copper and Other Precious Metals brings the reader face to face with the emotional realities of loss, heartbreak, and pain, but also with the acceptance and recognition of the same, laid down in this book with grace and majesty. Copper is hewn from the heart of the poet, and infused with a voice ringing with clarity, sincerity, and love." -Dana Huffer, writer, reader, scholar

"Elaine's poetic storytelling is deeply affecting in its heartfelt disposition and steadfast in its delivery. Her writing maintains unwavering realism, but also unquestionably inspires hope. Elaine's writing testifies that there cannot be joy without despair and vice versa." -Eric Vajentic, writer, reader, philosopher