Book of Gods and Grudges Quitab Editions author of My Life as

author of My Life as a Foreign Country

Lisken Van Pelt Dus and Sharon Venezio reveal the best of their work and their underlying philosophies

—Edward Smallfield

they take us to the essence of who we are

” Such earthy paradoxes in Ruth Goring’s new collection extend her loving lament to mountains and rivers

Book of Gods and Grudges Quitab Editions author of My Life asJessica Walsh's Book of Gods and Grudges tells a tale of generational trauma and transcendence. She declares early on that "My first kin were killers," people for whom "burnout was a luxury" they could not afford. Her speaker struggles through illness and sobriety and grappling with God as a problem she tries to solve as she finds her own calling. The poems are unflinchingly honest and impeccably crafted. They show us what it means to stay "flagrantly