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To Begin Again is Jillian Hanson's debut poetry collection — an invitation to undo the stories we carry inside ourselves and reclaim our inner landscape as fertile ground for creating.
Written during the pandemic while Jillian completed her MFA, and born partly in Blue Sky writing groups, these poems do what Jillian describes as "naming what mostly goes unnamed inside me; speaking the unspoken truths my body carries."
This is an inner life turned inside-out — and an offering. Because the further Jillian went into her own depths, the more she found what we all carry: unspoken griefs, wild hungers, strange flashes of joy. A vast interior universe we're taught to mistrust, but where our deepest knowing lives.
"I offer these poems as little lamps to carry with you into your own uncharted territory."
Praise for To Begin Again:
In To Begin Again, Jillian Hanson weaves everyday threads into luminous music as she deftly explores the body, her own and the world's intertwined. These poems shimmer with paradox and possibility, activism and acceptance, kindness and keen insight.
— Janet E. Aalfs, author of What the Dead Want Me to Know
Deliciously intimate… Jillian Hanson’s debut collection is wise in ways many first books are not and more formally inventive than most. A glorious must-read!
— Cate Marvin, PhD author of Event Horizon
In To Begin Again the courageous and brilliant poet challenges us to follow, as she does, “…an itch/so deep in the bone you/can’t scratch it without taking yourself apart.”And through these exquisite poems, she follows the ineffable call of the mystery of being, itself.
— Patricia Lee Lewis, author of Thorns of the Mesquite
To Begin Again reminds me of everything I love about poetry: immediacy, urgency, intimacy. The poems are raw and present and unostentatiously perfect.
— Angela Williamson Emmert, Poetry Editor at LitFox Books
– 6 × 9
– Paperback
– Design by Alex Cohen
To Begin Again is Jillian Hanson's debut poetry collection — an invitation to undo the stories we carry inside ourselves and reclaim our inner landscape as fertile ground for creating.
Written during the pandemic while Jillian completed her MFA, and born partly in Blue Sky writing groups, these poems do what Jillian describes as "naming what mostly goes unnamed inside me; speaking the unspoken truths my body carries."
This is an inner life turned inside-out — and an offering. Because the further Jillian went into her own depths, the more she found what we all carry: unspoken griefs, wild hungers, strange flashes of joy. A vast interior universe we're taught to mistrust, but where our deepest knowing lives.
"I offer these poems as little lamps to carry with you into your own uncharted territory."
Praise for To Begin Again:
In To Begin Again, Jillian Hanson weaves everyday threads into luminous music as she deftly explores the body, her own and the world's intertwined. These poems shimmer with paradox and possibility, activism and acceptance, kindness and keen insight.
— Janet E. Aalfs, author of What the Dead Want Me to Know
Deliciously intimate… Jillian Hanson’s debut collection is wise in ways many first books are not and more formally inventive than most. A glorious must-read!
— Cate Marvin, PhD author of Event Horizon
In To Begin Again the courageous and brilliant poet challenges us to follow, as she does, “…an itch/so deep in the bone you/can’t scratch it without taking yourself apart.”And through these exquisite poems, she follows the ineffable call of the mystery of being, itself.
— Patricia Lee Lewis, author of Thorns of the Mesquite
To Begin Again reminds me of everything I love about poetry: immediacy, urgency, intimacy. The poems are raw and present and unostentatiously perfect.
— Angela Williamson Emmert, Poetry Editor at LitFox Books
– 6 × 9
– Paperback
– Design by Alex Cohen