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Vital Records by Joycelyn Trigg

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Joycelyn Trigg’s heart-rending poems tell the story of the speaker’s love-hate relationship with her native Mississippi reflected in precise emotional memories of family and her own life. Through exquisite image and metaphor, Trigg describes roots she has left and roots that were never able to grow elsewhere, a brilliant testimony to the beauty and struggle of an inner journey by a gifted poet, a journey that will resonate with readers.

–Elizabeth Kirkpatrick-Vrenios, A Concerto for an Empty Frame

 

Verses that twinkle in the twilight of memories shine in Joycelyn Trigg’s new book of poetry, Vital Records. This vibrant work carries us through a young woman’s life, mostly in the rugged southern rigidity of Seminary, Mississippi. Relatives, near relatives, and friends twist along familial lines to slow-burning angst. Trigg’s verses ache with the deepening of dusk and beautiful imagery. It is a wonderful book that will stay with the reader.

–Indigo Moor, Everybody’s Jonesin’ for Something

 

 

 

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Vital Records

by Joycelyn Trigg

Full-length, Paper

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This title will be released on May 16 , 2025

In Vital Records a daughter of Mississippi travels back through time, re-imagining her parents’ and others’ lives, and by extension, her own. Remembered moments become images that, like photographs, capture a moment in time. The memories in this collection are not literal but emotional memories, and in some cases they seek to speak for people who could not speak for themselves. Rather than autobiography, the collection is a poetic rendition of a life felt if not exactly how it was lived. It is the poet’s job to rescue brief moments, and this collection is dedicated to just that gesture.

Joycelyn Trigg lives in Mendocino, California, where she landed after a long career as a scholarly editor, publisher, and university communications director in the South. She holds an MFA from the Ranier Writing Workshop at Pacific Lutheran University in Tacoma, Washington. A native of Mississippi, she will no doubt continue to write poems loosely based on remembered stories and events as well as poems that grow out of Mendocino and the beauty of the Pacific coast.

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