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Grief Land

Poems

By: Carrie Shipers

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In Grief Land Carrie Shipers explores the paradoxical nature of bereavement as both a universal human experience and an intensely personal one. The poems interrogate and dismiss common notions of loss and recovery through a series of letter-poems—to authors who have written about grief, to the speaker’s dead husband, and to a society that believes it has the right to dictate how a widow should feel and act. The collection explores living with grief without being consumed by it and how to emerge into a new life.

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University of New Mexico Press

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0826361684

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9780826361684

Family Resemblances

Poems

By: Carrie Shipers

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Family Resemblances

Poems

By: Carrie Shipers

The poems in Family Resemblances unfold in a series of overlapping narratives in which characters struggle with injury and healing, violence and fear, courage and forgiveness. Throughout this beautiful volume, the multiple meanings of family—whether formed by biology or choice—are questioned through careful attention to the often conflicting notions of connection, inheritance, absence, and escape. The truths these poems find are much like life itself: complex, provisional, and rich.

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UNM Press

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0826356559

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9780826356550

Cause for Concern (Able Muse Book Award for Poetry)

By: Carrie Shipers

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Cause for Concern (Able Muse Book Award for Poetry)

By: Carrie Shipers

Carrie Shipers’s Cause for Concern traverses a landscape of assorted disasters—such as overwork and layoffs, the ill-fated explorer, circus mishaps, nuclear disaster and radiation—but at its heart is the personal disaster of spousal illness. While a spouse might avow faith in the sentiment of love in sickness and in health, the practice of such faith might come undone when faced with the reality of the ravages of illness on the stricken body of the beloved, alongside the caregiving mate who “could love/ [her] husband but distrust his body,/ expect betrayal at every turn.” Full of incisive meditations on frailties and fortitude often delivered with visceral honesty, Cause for Concern is spellbinding from start to finish and, deservedly, the winner of the 2014 Able Muse Book Award for Poetry. PRAISE FOR CAUSE FOR CONCERN: Carrie Shipers’s magnificent endeavor aims to control the uncontrollable. In her splendid collection Cause for Concern she gives us her spirited poems—subversively satisfying in our era of cool wordplay. Both her comfort with ambiguity and her sassy candor aid the poet as she writes of a wife who is hoodwinked into a necessary patience—one she both chafes from and rebels against after her husband falls seriously ill. In rhythms that alternate between hope and defeat, the poems track the illness, but also punctuate the couple’s changed world with quirky observations and a scrappy spirituality. (Not to mention a canine companion.) Her poet’s craft, palpable in every arresting line, makes the subtlest turns of vulnerability with enviable poise. —Molly Peacock, 2014 Able Muse Book Award judge, author of The Paper Garden Only a poet of unquestionable bravery and technical acuity could rehearse the quotidian details of a middle class, middle aged existence with such exquisite, irresistible and terrifying honesty. —Kwame Dawes, author of Duppy Conqueror: New and Selected Poems If illness is a country inhospitable to guests, then Carrie Shipers’s second poetry collection, Cause for Concern, is our guidebook, preparing us for what we will find in the waiting room, by the bedside, in the bathroom, or on the skin when the gauze is lifted. These are naked, open poems. They say things that make us wince, as when we look at an incision still puckered and red. Shipers reminds us that our lives must first be prodded and cauterized, if the injured parts are ever to heal. —Jehanne Dubrow, author of The Arranged Marriage

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1927409608

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9781927409602

The Brightest Star of All

Christmas Stories for the Family

By: Carrie Papa

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The Brightest Star of All

Christmas Stories for the Family

By: Carrie Papa

Over the years, Christians have built on the Scriptural account of Jesus' birth to create dozens of charming Christmas stories: "The Light in the Well," "The Camel's Hump," "The Gift of the Spider," and more. This book uses the beauty and power of these simple stories to help bring readers of all ages a new understanding and thoughtful appreciation of the Nativity.Christmas stories from around the world are presented, with notes about their origins and other fascinating facts. Craft suggestions are included, along with family and group activities.Introduction: The Power of Stories The Christmas Story as Told in the Bible 1. Stories about Light 2. Animal Stores 3. Bird Stories 4. Stories about Spiders and Insects 5. Plant Stories 6. Flower Stories 7. Stories about Christmas Traditions 8. Stories Linking Christmas and Easter Conclusion: Christmas BellsCarrie Papa has always been interested in people and their history, including her work as director of Old Monroe School Museum, a one-room schoolhouse dating back nearly two centuries. She is the author of Stones and Stories: An Oral History of the Old Monroe School and Prayers of a Young Addict . She lives in Bridgewater, New Jersey.

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0687648130

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9780687648139

Family Resemblances

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By: Carrie Shipers

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Family Resemblances

Poems

By: Carrie Shipers

The poems in Family Resemblances unfold in a series of overlapping narratives in which characters struggle with injury and healing, violence and fear, courage and forgiveness. Throughout this beautiful volume, the multiple meanings of family--whether formed by biology or choice--are questioned through careful attention to the often conflicting notions of connection, inheritance, absence, and escape. The truths these poems find are much like life itself: complex, provisional, and rich.

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Book's by Carrie Shipers

Grief Land

Grief Land

Family Resemblances

Family Resemblances

Cause for Concern (Able Muse Book Award for Poetry)

Cause for Concern (Able Muse Book Award for Poetry)

The Brightest Star of All

The Brightest Star of All

Family Resemblances

Family Resemblances

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