I survived (and thrived) in the midst of cops, drugs, and violence, in my own family. Death threats, destruction, lying, stealing, and jail. It was a daily battle keeping all of us safe, and the house from going up in smoke from the "play" fires the boys were lighting in the yard. Other families were planning for their children to go to college; we were just trying to keep ours out of jail, and get them through high school. We spent hundreds of thousands of dollars on attorney's fees, residential school, private escort transport services, airfare, travel, educational consultants, and private boarding schools. Finally, in desperation, I reached out for God's help - and got it. Then everything began to change, including me.

The Passion and the Power: A Mother s Journey

Parenting & Relationships

Grace, Carolyn

Family Relationships

Carolyn Grace Ronca

[Grenadine and Other Love Affairs] is the work of an alarming talent. An intricate gem of a poetic debut." 
"Grace's poetry is laden with sensuous imagery: 'Ignominious fruit of that garden / my carmine lips, your garnet desire.' The most compelling aspect of this ingenious body of verse is the poet's determination to excavate ever deeper layers of meaning..."-Kirkus Reviews (starred review)\n"A gorgeous and smart debut." -Rebecca Gayle Howell, Poetry Editor, Oxford American\n"In this sensuous debut poetry collection, Grenadine and Other Love Affairs, Carolyn Grace explores meaning through body, image, form, music, myth, and history-and always through language that 'must stretch to convey / only the edge' of the subject ('Grenadine'). In Grace's deft hands, stretch it does-stretch and infuse, suffuse, penetrate, undercut, probe, and play with meaning...To read these poems is to touch and taste and hold love deeply in body and soul, to celebrate love, unflinching and painful and joyful. 'Poetry, ' Grace writes, is 'prayer-a desired exactitude of thought-the magical incantation of the essential ('Delphic', in 'Reverie').' 
Come, enter this magical, essential world. Let its music sound your depths, its precision sharpen your mind. Then prepare to leave changed, your self challenged and enlarged." 
- LIBBY FALK JONES, Professor of English, Emerita, Berea College

Grenadine and Other Love Affairs: poems

Literature & Fiction

Poetry

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