The Everyday, the Mundane, and the Brave by Sarah Joy Thompson
$14.99
Thompson’s beautifully honest poems invite readers into the demanding, transformative work of being an adult self. By equal measures intimate and imaginative, these poems show that work to be as outward as it is inward, always bound up with ongoing efforts to know others: strangers as well as family, within the shared space of a city, a home, even a body, but also across distances of geography, time, and dream. Where human connection seems threatened, voice is what rescues it, and this heartening collection, in what it says and what it does, confirms the necessity of song.
–Susannah Hollister, editor of Gertrude Stein’s Stanzas in Mediation.
Intertwined throughout this collection of poems is an overwhelming theme of love. Love of family, spouse, and above all her infant son. This love radiates to all children and mothers and the empathy she feels for the difficulties of raising a child in today’s world is tenderly portrayed in simple, direct words. Nor does she neglect the mundane aspects of young motherhood, the discomfort and often inconvenience of providing sustenance from her own body to that of her child. She approaches this phase of life with open eyes that see the everyday beauty of it and its challenges.
–Charles Darnell, author of Water, Tongues, Earth, and Blood
Description
The Everyday, the Mundane, and the Brave
by Sarah Joy Thompson
$14.99, paper
978-1-64662-047-0
2019
Born and raised in the Philippines to an American father and Filipino mother, Sarah Thompson spent her childhood and teenage years doing missionary work with her parents and siblings. At a young age, Sarah developed a strong interest in art and writing. Her interest in writing impelled her to move to San Antonio to pursue a BA degree in English at the University of Texas at San Antonio. Her poems have appeared in Sagebrush Review Volume XI, the Enigmatist, and 100 Thousand Poets for Change San Antonio: Women SPEAK!, 2018. She continuously develops her love for writing during her travels and from her home in San Antonio, Texas where she lives with her husband, son, and a friendly family dog.
A. Contreras –
A collection of poems that hit on personal moments of the authors life. It is easy to follow along the authors journey and gives great self reflection on my own life.