The Offering

By Eleanor Kedney

A masterful poetic tapestry woven from what makes us human, an offering of hard-won wisdom that is both personal and pervasive. Now available in our Lulu Bookstore as a Premium First Edition Chapbook. Now in ePub & pdf ebook formats. It is also available for Kindle Readers directly from our Kindle Book Shelf.

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What others are saying about The Offering:

The Offering does something very hard to do, and therefore special: it embraces grief without succumbing to it. Eleanor Kedney has written a very brave and bracing book, lively with lyrical energy and keen intelligence. There’s a quiet beauty of place here, too, and the love and nature poems are quite moving. What a fine, endearing debut!
~ Philip Schultz, winner of the Pulitzer Prize for Poetry 

Eleanor Kedney’s poems constantly surprise the reader with flashes of sheer intelligence and attention to language. While her spirited work no doubt engages the intellect, these are also poems of the body and the voice; this book never disappoints. The sensuality of The Offering is unavoidable and ultimately joyous. There is a music here that sings and rings and lingers in the mind.
~ Juliet Patterson, winner of the Nightboat Books Prize

Like “the yellow caterpillar / I hold in my palm that will turn / into a Hummingbird Moth” Eleanor Kedney’s poems in this wonderful collection take flight from everyday experiences to reveal the unusual, which is to say a unique vision—which is why we come to poetry in the first place. Blending family with larger issue, these poems proceed with an intuitive blend of metaphors that stretch across narrative, meditative and dramatic setting and blending sometimes a technical, sometimes a colloquial language. Vision as eyesight—and these are very well observed settings—become visions in the visionary sense time and again, offerings as the title suggests that bring us to a passionate understanding of a world where nature and human nature echo one another.
~ Richard Jackson, winner of Guggenheim and Fulbright Fellowships, and five Pushcart Prizes