“Inside me, there, in the corner are my little girls. / All these years they still wait for me to save them,” writes J.V. Foerster in her powerful new debut collection, Holy Mess of a Girl. Here we are taken from childhood to widowhood, where “we’re pinching off bits / of bitter memories and find us all are here / in this / fog sailing.” Foerster is a thoughtful, narrative poet who writes compelling—I became swallowed alive by—poetry. And you, Reader, will too—with each engaging poem, you will find yourself folded into that light too. These are important and much-needed poems for this world and show how even after pain and trauma, there is strength and self and light.
—Kelli Russell Agodon
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