{"product_id":"proud-roads-kelly-riedesel-9798990073081","title":"Proud Roads: Poems by Kelly Riedesel","description":"\u003cp\u003eWhen Hurricane Helene tore through Southern Appalachia, it left behind more than toppled trees and broken bridges-it rewrote the map of what it means to belong.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn Proud Roads, Kelly Riedesel chronicles the storm's long wake: the hundred-year-old elders uprooted overnight, the X marks of rescue teams still on front doors, the way \"every gust of wind, every snapping branch\" startles the body long after the rain stops. Moving through prose-poems, lyric fragments, and echoes of Indigenous storytelling, Riedesel holds space for the uncounted losses-dignity buried in makeshift shelters, roads \"rendered flesh at the bottom of chasms\"-while also charting the routes back to each other.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eHere, survival is not just a matter of endurance, but of care: the neighbor with a chainsaw clearing your way out, the mules carrying supplies over washed-out hollers, the children \"watching what care looks like\" in real time. Even in the face of climate trauma, Proud Roads insists on the roads-both physical and spiritual-that hold a community together: \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"We are flooding back love, \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003estanding up when we can, without comment, \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003esitting down when we must, without guilt, \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003edoing the things that keep us proud.\"\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eOn the first anniversary of the storm, these poems serve as an artifact and an offering-proof that the proud roads of this place are still here, still carrying those who walk them.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Kelly Riedesel\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9798990073081\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Loblolly Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 09\/27\/2025\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 70\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.30lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.19d","brand":"Kelly Riedesel","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":47453008265471,"sku":"9798990073081","price":20.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_60bb0d8c-1b90-4ff4-bd9e-c1834ad83356.jpg?v=1761931469","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/proud-roads-kelly-riedesel-9798990073081","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}