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There is a luxury in looking back at a journey completed. We begin something because we intend to finish it, and it is the journey that carries more weight than how we start or when we end. The loss or change of relationships, health, and home finds us in denial and "fight mode" where acceptance and appreciation are often hard-won battles. As the opening poem suggests, this collection is a meditation against forgetting those moments we tend to throw away - lonely, angry, ugly, grief-filled moments we would rather forget. But these are exactly the situations that make us who we are and should…mehr

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There is a luxury in looking back at a journey completed. We begin something because we intend to finish it, and it is the journey that carries more weight than how we start or when we end. The loss or change of relationships, health, and home finds us in denial and "fight mode" where acceptance and appreciation are often hard-won battles. As the opening poem suggests, this collection is a meditation against forgetting those moments we tend to throw away - lonely, angry, ugly, grief-filled moments we would rather forget. But these are exactly the situations that make us who we are and should be valued even after we make it through the difficult times: especially when we make it all the way through.
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Autorenporträt
KB Ballentine received her MFA in Poetry from Lesley University, Cambridge, MA. She currently teaches high school composition, creative writing, and theatre and adjuncts for a local college. She is a board member for SoLit (Chattanooga, TN) and a member of the Poetry Society of Tennessee, the Chattanooga Writers' Guild, the Knoxville Writers' Guild, and Rhyme-n-Chatt. Ballentine hosts a local Open Mic each month, conducts writing workshops, and is currently a reader for Compass Rose (Washington DC).