Where We Let Go by Cindy Kelly Benabderrahman
$14.99
“Where We Let Go is a deep, textured word-feast of grief and love. Each poem creates a bridge of memories, leaving me longing for the past and uneasy of the future. A perfect blend of beauty and sadness that I will sit with and think on for a long time.”
–Amy K. Nichols, Author of Now That You’re Here (Knopf 2014) and While You Were Gone (Knopf 2015)
“Memories, like families, both break the heart and keep it whole. So, too, these fifteen poems that, like the peeling wallpaper of “A Record of Things,” reveal in ribbons of stories details of living day to day that one might almost forget to remember while mending into meaning the hard things that can’t be forgotten. In “For Good,” Cindy Kelly Benabderrahman tells us, “There are two reasons to keep things: / one is for good / the other in case.” Regarding Where We Let Go, both reasons apply, which is to say, these poems are keepers.”
–Brooke Horvath, Author of Consolation at Ground Zero, The Lecture on Dust, and Understanding Nelson Algren
“The poems in Cindy Kelly Benabderrahman’s Where We Let Go are a collection of memories—meditative reflections and personal moments, scattered throughout the pages for the reader to piece together. Each poem offers an opportunity to delve deeper into these memories (some of sorrow and some of joy), and reveals to us a tapestry of emotions. By the end of this book, the reader is able to view a portrait that is both touching and heartbreaking.”
–Judson Simmons, Author of The Hallelujah Hour
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Where We Let Go
by Cindy Kelly Benabderrahman
$14.99, paper
978-1-63534-916-0
2019
Cindy Kelly Benabderrahman lives in Amsterdam, Ohio in a mid-nineteenth century American Pyramidal coal company house with her husband, Oualid. She works full time in the telecommunications industry and part time as a freelancer. She is a mixed media artist and writer, and her work has been published in journals including Red Eft Review, Orange Room Review, New Myths, and Red Fez Review. She holds a Master of Science in Reading Education from Franciscan University of Steubenville and a Bachelor of Arts in English with The Writing Minor from Kent State University. She was the editor-in-chief at Amsterdam Press, where she edited the quarterly magazine Plain Spoke and the Gobpile Chapbook Series. She enjoys being an aunt and researching her Melungeon ancestry.
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