{"product_id":"keepdiscard-jacalyn-shelley-9781639807437","title":"Keep\/Discard","description":"Beginning with two photographs and objects in a cardboard box, Jackie Shelley paints a landscape of a family over six generations. The changing shapes of her poems mirrors how families are changed by death, divorce, grief, and mental illness. Though these poems contain tragedies, love endures through time as objects of inheritance.\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e-\u003cb\u003e\u003cb\u003eDeborah Bayer\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e, author, \u003ci\u003e\u003ci\u003eRope Made of Bandages\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003eWhat do we choose to inherit from our flawed families? Is it even a choice at all? In Jackie Shelley's \u003ci\u003e\u003ci\u003eKeep\/Discard, \u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e we are presented with a meditation on generational grief. Shelley's poems, like the nature of memory itself, sometimes float away from the margins, jump forward and backward in time - all connecting to create our messy personal history and a legacy that is more than an attic full of artifacts caked in dust.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e-\u003cb\u003e\u003cb\u003eBen Hyland\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e, author, \u003ci\u003e\u003ci\u003eShelter in Place\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003eYou'll return to Jackie Shelley's \u003ci\u003e\u003ci\u003eKeep\/Discard\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e again and again, first to appreciate the stunning images, such as \"Tonight, I will gnaw \/ on the bones of the dead,\" \"the dreamy \/ aspirations of mud,\" and \"as crickets grieve.\" Then you'll go back to Shelley's pitch-perfect poems that bring lost family members and treasured objects to life, and be stirred by unexpected questions and insights in these intelligent, inventive poems.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e-\u003cb\u003e\u003cb\u003eBarbara Daniels\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e, author, \u003ci\u003e\u003ci\u003eTalk to the Lioness\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Jacalyn Shelley\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 1639807438\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781639807437\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 56\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.19lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.13d","brand":"Jacalyn Shelley","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":48436891746559,"sku":"9781639807437","price":20.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_4b0470f8-aaa5-44d6-a269-a4e47f1fc544.jpg?v=1777158473","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/keepdiscard-jacalyn-shelley-9781639807437","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}