In the Country of Hard Life and Rosebuds History_Gift_Guide complete with journal prompts

complete with journal prompts

where she cares for her mentally challenged brother

taking snapshots and posting them on Instagram

you're actually in the perfect position for God to lead you to greater heights

In the Country of Hard Life and Rosebuds History_Gift_Guide complete with journal promptsUsing family myth as navigation, the poems within In The Country of Hard Life and Rosebuds rotate between lyric pastorals and narrative forms. The speaker attempts to trace her identity along a timeline and family who remain geographically separate. In doing so, the poems echo toward the past for answers that stand indefinable in the present. The collection weaves a story of family, love, and the inevitability of the kind of loss experienced by