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A Bouquet of Glass
What are you left with when glass shatters? Emerging from a mind with a propensity for the otherworldly and an unsuitability for the worldly, A Bouquet of Glass gathers the fragments of different realities into a vivid, piercing collection. These poems are the extra-ordinary stories of a poet living with a naturally psychoactive mind and a life-altering disability. From heightened altered states to spacious musings and playful concoctions, they are disarmingly human notes of love and loss. At once elegy and wild romp, they invite different pieces of a life to exist together uneasily, gracefully, precariously. You may wish to curl up with this book on one side of the glass, but only once a whirling storm has rushed through.
Through visceral sensory imagery Carol Krause manifests rest as resistance nature as solace and camaraderie excruciation of mundanity kaleidoscope of other worlds lives not lived intimacy of platonic and altered statesA Bouquet of Glassleaves you with lines to return to and linger on The poems etch themselves into you finding belonging
—MUGABI BYENKYA awardwinning author of Dear Philomena Songs For WoMen and Songs For WoMen 2
These vital and visceral prose poems map the surreal landscape of a mind altered altared eachword at once a bloom and a shard Something resembling joy rushes through a crack in theworld and Krause takes us to the other side
—JODY CHAN author of impact statement and sick winner of the Trillium Award for Poetry
InA Bouquet of GlassCarol Krause uses language and forms that areintricate fertile fresh and wonderfully strange to invite us into thebeautiful and hopeful paradox that these poems themselves could salvethe agony they describe A work of art that affirms life in its courage tofearlessly elucidate what denies it
—THEA LIM author of An Ocean of Minutes
In eerily gorgeous poetry Carol Krause has left us a burning trail through her particular flavours of brilliance and madness I finish this book not only feeling connected to her exposed heart but being resensitized to look for hidden doors to other realities in this world in desperate need of new visions
—SASCHA ALTMAN DUBRUL author of Maps to the Other Side the adventures of a bipolar cartographer
This collection of electrifying prose poems goes beyond the glass with raw honesty showing us the beauty in a spiritual experience of birds landing on rooftops the joy and pain of living when it is hard to delineate the inside from the outside world and the resilience life takes as someone with mental divergence It leads the reader into understanding what it can be like to live with a disability Most of allthis book is an invitation to see the importance and beauty of a life lived at the edges because when we lie flat on the ground our eyes inside of the sky People like you Well you might want to join us
—PAOLA FERRANTE author of Her Body Among Animals and What to Wear When Surviving a Lion Attack
Carol Krause is a gifted wordsmith and when a cardinal lands on her ear the poems inA Bouquet of Glasstake flight splintering into multiple kaleidoscopic realities This is a work of searching beauty that asks readers to surrender to the prismatic nature of poetry
—JIM JOHNSTONE author of The King of Terrors
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Dimensions:
102 Pages
8in * 5in * .25in
1gr
Published:
March 01, 2025
Publisher:
ISBN:
9781771839389
Language:
eng
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