The Old Folks Call It God's Country

<p>Carol Parris Krauss weaves stories of North Carolina and South Carolina through various people and places. Her poems are a glimpse into the place the Old Folk's call God's Country. From looking outside her grandparent's home in Brevard North Carolina to recounting her sister's journey to a cottage at Pawleys Island the reader can travel with her on this journey of recognition and recollection.</p><p><br></p><p><br></p><p class=ql-align-justify>Carol Krauss' poems are authentic multifaceted stories of being born and raised in the Carolinas. ...[her] warm down to earth storytelling is interspersed throughout with startling imagery which makes each poem in this collection a delight to read. From her grandparents' house that was <em>thumb-smashed into the side of a mountain</em> to the <em>sour breath fog</em> of a hurricane that <em>rears back its head and roars</em> her words provide a unique view of a physical landscape that is in her blood.</p><p><strong>-Beth Dulin writer & editor</strong></p><p> </p><p> </p><p class=ql-align-justify>These allusive poems with references to Jane Kenyon and Eudora Welty create a kind of liminal space a pause for reflection between a little girl's miserable corrective shoes and an older woman's sore hip. Carol Krauss can see bullets in red rubber pencil erasers but also finds grace on mountain tops and a cruise downtown to the old Courthouse. I call shotgun!</p><p><strong>-Christine Potter author of <em>UnforgettingSheltering in Place</em> and The Bean Books series</strong></p><p><strong> </strong></p><p> </p><p>Carol Krauss paints a family history that intersects with the beauty and dangers of the natural world. Each poem offers a story to us full of the wisdom gained from the small hurricanes we live through together. </p><p><strong>-Michael Jon Khandelwal executive director The Muse Writers Center</strong></p><p><br></p>