I love everything about Textbook of an Ordinary Life. I love the cover (I really love the cover), I love the depths and heights that the poems examine, I love the structure, I love the way it all reminds me that an ordinary life is something really extraordinary. You’ll hear this over and over in my poetry collections—the celebrations of life and love, the sacred space of a moment, the ridiculous privilege of being alive.
As always, I hope that readers will see in my poetry a small piece of themselves and their own experience. I hope they will examine and embrace the heights and depths of love and life—so that joy and excitement and fulfillment can surge into their hearts with a permanent, life-changing intensity.
I hope they will read and reread and reread again the poems that show them life in the darkest places, speak hope to despair, and challenge them to live their ordinary life to its absolute fullest.
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