Book of Gods & Grudges

<p>Jessica Walsh's<em> Book of Gods and Grudges</em> tells a tale of generational trauma and transcendence. She declares early on that My first kin were killers people for whom burnout was a luxury they could not afford. Her speaker struggles through illness and sobriety and grappling with God as a problem she tries to solve as she finds her own calling. The poems are unflinchingly honest and impeccably crafted. They show us what it means to stay flagrantly alive.</p><p class=ql-align-right><br></p><p class=ql-align-right><strong>-Grace Bauer</strong> author of </p><p class=ql-align-right><em>Unholy Heart: New and Selected Poems</em></p>