InPassing Through Humansville, Karen Craigo builds a rich and embracing vision of life from the bricks of mundane experience. She strikes a surprising and sturdy balance between the pressure of new motherhood on an aging body and the electric energy of a sleepy toddler. With the delicacy of a spider’s climb towards the ceiling and the strength of a bending knee, her work illuminates the essential connective tissue of life through a poetic voice that is tirelessly compassionate. Craigo is uniquely observant, picking and weaving common threads of humanity together with unashamed humility. Be it sympathy towards the busy innkeeper of the nativity story, or momentary doubt about whom one is compared to to whom one planned to be, Passing Through Humansville offers alliance by way of a deep human lineage. These poems are filled with a wisdom that is expressly for sharing, an argument meant “to see how all things/are connected by barely a breath.”
InPassing Through Humansville, Karen Craigo builds a rich and embracing vision of life from the bricks of mundane experience. She strikes a surprising and sturdy balance between the pressure of new motherhood on an aging body and the electric energy of a sleepy toddler. With the delicacy of a spider’s climb towards the ceiling and the strength of a bending knee, her work illuminates the essential connective tissue of life through a poetic voice that is tirelessly compassionate. Craigo is uniquely observant, picking and weaving common threads of humanity together with unashamed humility. Be it sympathy towards the busy innkeeper of the nativity story, or momentary doubt about whom one is compared to to whom one planned to be, Passing Through Humansville offers alliance by way of a deep human lineage. These poems are filled with a wisdom that is expressly for sharing, an argument meant “to see how all things/are connected by barely a breath.”
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