January Pearson‘s poetry has appeared in Tahoma Literary Review, Calyx, Los Angeles Review, Notre Dame Review, and other publications. She lives in Southern California with her husband and two daughters.
PRAISE:
“In these clear-eyed and deeply felt poems, Jani Pearson tells the story of her father’s slow death from a rare illness and its aftermath. Her poems transform pain and uncertainty: an x-ray of a broken hip becomes shards of opal pebbles and beach glass; a heart monitor becomes a chirping wren. Exploring the tender beauty in caregiving, the impossible lengths we’d travel for a remedy, and the way grief knocks us flat, Pearson carefully shepherds us through this heart-rending experience. I’m so glad for her voice, the company of her poems, and the way they make me catch my breath as they show me the light of love, of quiet joy, in the midst of sorrow.”
–Kathleen McGoogkey, author of Paper Sky
“Each delicate poem in this collection appears to be painted with a fine artist’s brush. Pearson’s precise and musical language turns the everyday familiar, often the sad and painful, into the exquisite.”
–Michael Mark, 2022 Rattle Chapbook Prize Winner
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