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Still I am Pushing - by Candice M Kelsey (Paperback)
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- Author(s): Candice M Kelsey
- 128 Pages
- Poetry, General
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What a stunning, sobering and heartbreaking collection this is. These poems, constellating around the speaker's relationship with her mother, are extraordinary reflections on a past that seemed intent upon demeaning misjudgments and willful misunderstandings. These powerful poems gather, one by one, into a lyrical and triumphant confrontation with the ghosts of that past. This is a book every mother, every daughter will want to read.
--David St. John, Author of The Last Troubadour: New and Selected Poems
Still I am Pushing, Candice Kelsey's debut poetry collection, is remarkable for the unflinching eye it casts on daughterhood and motherhood, on the terrors and, sometimes, beauties of childhood, on the complexities of our bodied lives. In intense and clear vignettes with structural allusions to classic literature, Kelsey mines the depths of her life, and by association our own lives. As she writes: "steaming/inside every bone cold plate I bury/in the cupboard/ my mother, every mother." This is a remarkable first book--powerful and wise.
--Gail Wronsky, Author of Imperfect Pastorals
This skillfully crafted collection both aches with struggle and shines with strength. In Still I Am Pushing, Candice Kelsey's spare, haunting, and lyrical voice explores the shadowy spaces between mother and daughter, self and mirror, body and breath. This collection sings.
--Marya Hornbacher, Author of Wasted: A Memoir of Anorexia and Bulimia