{"product_id":"beauty-ashes-karen-warinsky-9781639807277","title":"Beauty \u0026 Ashes","description":"Karen Warinsky organizes \u003ci\u003e\u003ci\u003eBeauty \u0026amp; Ashes\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e to follow the seasons of the year as an allegory, of course, for the trajectory of a human life. But the book's calendar ends in spring, the season of beginnings (!) despite our learning earlier from a speaker that Death \"is sometimes there \/ lounging in my poems about nature and spirit... \/ he wants to take me home.\" I reread these poems earnestly wondering where we have been and where we are headed. I do mean \u003ci\u003e\u003ci\u003ewe, \u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e for although the poems are personal and autobiographical, I recognize in all of them a correspondence and often a congruence with my own experience of beauty and ashes. I think every reader of this collection will as well.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e-\u003cb\u003e\u003cb\u003eJames Penha\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e, Managing Editor, \u003ci\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe New Verse News\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIn these poems you will find a celebration of womanhood and self-love, a carillon, meditations on aging and mortality, gardens and lakes, marriage, a folder for death, junkmen \"with their scrappy junkyard no-name cat \/ and their watchful, blank blue-eyed German Shepherd,\" and much more, which together make Warinsky's collection well worth reading.\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e-\u003cb\u003e\u003cb\u003eLee Desrosiers\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e, Editor and Publisher, \u003ci\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe Naugatuck River Review; Wordpeace\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003eFrom the first sun-soaked greeting in Summer to the final burst of promising shine in Spring, I read through \u003ci\u003e\u003ci\u003eBeauty \u0026amp; Ashes\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e and am moved by the seasons' weathered, psychological amp; sociological ebbs and flows, ethos and contradictions. Warinsky's work gives us reckonings and reclamations, truths casting us their life lines and fire extinguishers as a prescient reminder that we live always within the awe of creation and destruction.\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e-\u003cb\u003e\u003cb\u003eSandy Yannone\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e, Host, Cultivating Voices Live Poetry; Author, \u003ci\u003e\u003ci\u003eBoats for Women\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe Glass Studio\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Karen Warinsky\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 1639807276\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781639807277\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Kelsay Books\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 05\/12\/2025\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 118\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.37lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.25d\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Karen Warinsky","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":48437483798783,"sku":"9781639807277","price":23.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_05f8a5c9-e2b3-47cf-a94b-fdd340c7e971.jpg?v=1777162120","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/beauty-ashes-karen-warinsky-9781639807277","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}