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Cornerstone Press/Poetry/April 2025
ISBN 978-1-960329-88-2/US $21.95
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“These poems search for a place in the earth where we could hide from the world we’ve made.”
- Traci Brimhall, Poet Laureate of Kansas 2023-2026
”A book that speaks to the courage required to live in an uncertain world.”
- Emily Tuszynska, author of Surfacing
“Driven by sweet longing and love . . . Kalisz celebrates the everyday, while dreading what might interrupt it. We celebrate with her.”
- Jim Daniels, author of Perp Walk
”Kalisz chronicles her rural family’s domesticity with a tender precision that withstands headwinds of memory, love, dread, mourning, and the quotidian.”
- D.R. James, author of Mobius Trip and Flip Requiem
”A seamless tapestry . . . Kalisz’s poems speak a clear language in pure song.”
- Linda Nemec Foster, author of Bone Country
Kalisz’s poems are eggs “protected and refined,” precariously occupying the “vast landscape between hatched and cracked.”
- Deirdre Fagan
Quiet Woman reminds us of life’s extraordinary contradictions and “How effortless love can sometimes seem.” These are poems of tremendous empathy and observation.
- Joy Gaines-Friedler
These are hymns that hum of human endeavor, motherhood and its fears, and the resplendent pleasures of family life.
- Alan Michael Parker