Fire and Flourishing - by Kassi Wilson (Paperback)

About the Book

A captivating poetry book that explores the beauty of being a woman-our ability to heal and flourish through adversity in spite of our world's proneness to despair. Poems will resonate with women offering solace and inspiration.

Book Synopsis

A captivating poetry collection about the beauty and pain of being a woman in our world. During a season of emotional distance in her marriage wildfires erupt across California-her family on a whim decides to sell their home in the Bay Area and move across the country. Kassi's poems explore the themes of change, grief, hard lessons, growth, motherhood, and love's resilience. The through line is a deep desire to rise above the status quo and flourish with a reignited passion for life. Kassi's accessible poems will resonate with women, wives, and moms offering solace and inspiration.

Kassi Wilson's full-length poetry book of free-verse and prose explores the nature of being a woman-our ability to heal and flourish through adversity in spite of culture's proneness to despair. Women will see themselves in a new light one that uplifts them to dream and still hope in the beauty of our world.

• Inspirational poems
• Motivational book for women
• Postpartum inspiration
• Emotional healing
• Overcoming Fear
• Love's resilience
• Inspiration to dream again
• Flourishing through adversity
• Having hope in hard seasons
• New Beginnings

Perfect gift for

• Mother's Day
• Baby Showers
• Valentine's Day
• Anniversary Gift
• Birthday Gift
• Get-Well Gift
• Spring Celebrations
• Earth Day

Review Quotes

Fire and Flourishing by Kassi Wilson is a collection of poems that takes the reader on an adventure through lush imagery of nature, self-awareness, and womanhood. Each poem follows the journey of a woman discovering herself amid hardship and change, interlaced with depictions of the natural world as the main backdrop to this stunning poetry.

As you delve into the interconnected poems and acquaint yourself with the author's unique style and characters, you will come to cherish the gentle power with which she weaves themes of growth, change, motherhood, and love, always set against the comforting embrace of nature. This evokes a sense of security and tranquillity, making these themes less daunting and easier to approach and relate to as they mirror women's experiences and emotions.

The poetry is crafted so masterfully that you don't need to analyze each line, stanza or word choice to appreciate the structural beauty, where sometimes the poems create a visual image or the story slowly being built with every line. Kassi Wilson has created a collection of poetry that is genuinely accessible and impactful, even to readers who do not usually flock to poetry or those with a limited understanding of poetic techniques. Most of the poems flow in free verse, a style of poetry that does not follow a specific rhyme or meter, and the unique beauty and simplicity of the poetry make it easy to digest.

The collection features some poems that have a specific emotional impact, which I found particularly daring and raw with lived experience and emotion - one of these poems is 'When You Become a Mom' a poem that voices the struggle, pain and vulnerability that comes with motherhood, the poem voices the thoughts and feelings that are often left unsaid and ignored out of societal expectations placed on women. Even I, not a mother and not something I put much thought into, was impacted and moved by this poem, which leaves you with a couplet at the end:

In the middle of it all you're not alone-

you'll make it through, you will, you'll see!

Overall, this collection of poems is an essential read for women in all stages of life who are going through hardships and experiences that feel isolating or unacknowledged. Kassi Wilson's Fire and Flourishing depicts womanhood as the quintessential power of nature and gives voice to experiences that women often think about but do not talk about.

If you are a newcomer to poetry and are deeply interested in reading about women's experiences and the natural world, this is the perfect text for you. The carefully crafted narrative throughout makes this collection as welcoming to newcomers as it is to seasoned poetry lovers.

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