Breaking the Jar by Kelsi Folsom

$14.99

 

“Womanhood is whispering and roaring from the pages of these poems. No matter the volume or tone; it is free! These words are truly shattering the glass, every poem, a piercing shard laid on the ground. You cannot step or stomp around them.They are sharp, and your so(u)les may bleed.”

–Andrea “Vocab” Sanderson, San Antonio Poet Laureate

 

“With bold vulnerability Kelsi Folsom creates poetry that personifies the struggle of growing into a woman in conservative, evangelical Christianity. ‘It’s interesting the way a woman’s body can sin without her even knowing’ echoed the teachings of my childhood in a profound way.”

–Meghan Tschanz, host of the Faith and Feminism podcast and author of Women Rising: Learning to Listen, Reclaiming our Voice

 

“This book of poetry is a gift; a breathtaking collection every woman wants to have in her library.”

–Dr. Christy Bauman, author of Theology of the Womb and co-host of the Womaneering podcast

 

 

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Breaking the Jar

by Kelsi Folsom

$14.99, paper

978-1-64662-946-6

2022

With tender precision the poems in Breaking the Jar reveal the tragic reality that from the city slums to the kitchens of restaurants, pulpits of churches, and offices of schools and workplaces, no woman is immune to the collateral damage of gendered abuse. Every move, belief, identity, job, and function of women has depended on the whims of the powers that surrounded them. In the ongoing wake of #MeToo and #ChurchToo, American poet, Kelsi Folsom, believes it’s time to write a new story for women: one in which power is put back into the right hands: hers. Driven by her own experiences of abuse, and her international engagement in recovery work with marginalized and trafficked women, some as young as eight years old, this brief collection of poetry is an unfiltered look at the harrowing path into and out of bondage—from “forgetting what it means to want out” to believing “human hands cannot lay hold the hope that finds asylum here.” Readers of poets like Li-Young Lee, Marie Howe, and Carrie Fountain, will find much to admire in the haunting lyricism of Kelsi Folsom’s work.

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