Brood

<p>Brood. Debut poetry collection by Kelly Granito.  </p><p></p><p>5.53 X 8.27</p><p>46 Pages.</p><p></p><p>Kelly Granito is a poet educator and naturalist from Ann Arbor Michigan where she lives with her husband kids cat and too many plants. Her poetry has been featured in the Emerson Review Iron Horse Review the Louisville Review Burrow Press Midwestern Gothic and many other journals.</p><p></p><p>... With precise language and electrifying imagery Granito's pieces tackle the nostalgic self-</p><p>mythology of pre-parenthood years the inescapable reminders of long-gone traumas and fears reignited by the desire to protect one's new 'brood' and ultimately the difficulty in fusing past selves with a new one...</p><p></p><p>-Brigit Kelly Young is the author of several award-winning books for young adults. Her debut novel Worth a Thousand Words was a Junior Library Guild selection as well as a Best Book of 2019 from The Bank Street College of Education. Additionally Ms. Young has published short fiction and poetry in journals like The North American Review 2 River View Eclectica Magazine and Burrow Press among others. </p><p></p><p>In Brood Kelly Granito masterfully blends vivid nature imagery with complex reflections on motherhood... Yet amid this tension tiny moments of levity have the power to make 'a photon / an inferno that calls us in like moths / again / and again...'</p><p></p><p>-Denise Sedman is an award-winning poet and author of the poetry collection The Past Isn't Done with Me Yet. She has been published widely in literary journals and anthologies.</p>