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paperback
published by Alice Green & Co, 2022
In Between Us, Holly Wren Spaulding’s latest chapbook of poems, she offers the salvation of beauty amidst sorrow for who and what has been lost in recent years.
“Each poem in Holly Wren Spaulding’s exquisite new collection is an offering of flowers—some cut from the garden, others gathered wild from a field; some intricately arranged, others a single stem placed in a vase on the windowsill, the bedside table. All, however, afford us the pleasure of care having been taken, of beauty having been salvaged amid desolation, and shared. To read these poems is to be reminded of the consolations always available to us, if only we take the time to notice, as Holly has, with an eye both clear and kind, capable of seeing things as they are around and between us, and of giving them their due attention, due reverence. In other words, they show us how to be and how to bask–in the world, and in our lives—even and especially as they threaten to come to an end. ‘This means we have not forsaken / what exists between us.‘ Pure loveliness. An existential as well as an artistic achievement.”— Brit Washburn, author, Notwithstanding: Poems
paperback
published by Alice Green & Co, 2022
In Between Us, Holly Wren Spaulding’s latest chapbook of poems, she offers the salvation of beauty amidst sorrow for who and what has been lost in recent years.
“Each poem in Holly Wren Spaulding’s exquisite new collection is an offering of flowers—some cut from the garden, others gathered wild from a field; some intricately arranged, others a single stem placed in a vase on the windowsill, the bedside table. All, however, afford us the pleasure of care having been taken, of beauty having been salvaged amid desolation, and shared. To read these poems is to be reminded of the consolations always available to us, if only we take the time to notice, as Holly has, with an eye both clear and kind, capable of seeing things as they are around and between us, and of giving them their due attention, due reverence. In other words, they show us how to be and how to bask–in the world, and in our lives—even and especially as they threaten to come to an end. ‘This means we have not forsaken / what exists between us.‘ Pure loveliness. An existential as well as an artistic achievement.”— Brit Washburn, author, Notwithstanding: Poems
