In the Country of Hard Life and Rosebuds History_Gift_Guide From Olympic training centers to

From Olympic training centers to black-market laboratories

A meatball is one of the simplest recipes you can make

Will is already compromised

violently stealing the essence of endangered magical creatures

complete with journal prompts

In the Country of Hard Life and Rosebuds History_Gift_Guide From Olympic training centers toUsing family myth as navigation, the poems within In The Country of Hard Life and Rosebuds rotate between lyric pastorals and narrative forms. The speaker attempts to trace her identity along a timeline and family who remain geographically separate. In doing so, the poems echo toward the past for answers that stand indefinable in the present. The collection weaves a story of family, love, and the inevitability of the kind of loss experienced by