Grace in the Dirt: Poems Songs and Other Reflections on Life

From Cory Kruse author of the critically acclaimed A Dream of Darkness comes an incisive collection that will delight inspire devastate and uplift you.Told in spare accessible entries Grace in the Dirt is a lyrical memoir that delves into lifes ever-changing seasons leveraging the authors own history to explore the complex and often contradictory nature of the modern human experience. Specifically Kruse covers an expansive breadth of deeply personal topics things such as love and heartbreak grief and despair. He recounts moments of hope and crises of faith; he confesses family drama personal weaknesses and his own culpability in the deterioration of dreams. Throughout he also shares euphoric stories of triumph and overcoming of crushes and first loves all while looking toward the future with bright belief-filled eyes. And among it all he offers existential reflections on the fragility---and inanity---of this strange wonderful thing we call life.Across these pages then readers will encounter recollections of grace and levity failure and sorrow. Theyll discover truths hard won as well as witness the enduring legacy of hope---all of which will remind them that no matter what season theyre in theyre not alone.Relatable honest and exceedingly human Grace in the Dirt is a diary and a roadmap and a balm---one that will upon reading feel like coming home.