Through the tangled branches of life, Kelsey Day's second collection of poetry, rootlines, emerges as a testament to embracing the unknown. The collection blurs the...

Through the tangled branches of life, Kelsey Day's second collection of poetry, rootlines, emerges as a testament to embracing the unknown. The collection blurs the lines between the human and non-human world, colonial perceptions of "nature," and pays testimony to the Appalachian mountains that have long been abused by the fossil fuel industry. Day's lyrical and impassioned voice invites readers into the solace of these conversations. Both literary and accessible, rootlines is a collection about place, risk, and grief - about the roots we grow from and the branches we reach with.

These are poems grounded in place; it is therefore essential to recognize that southern Appalachia as we know it today was built on stolen land. Donate to the Indigenous Environmental Network here.

Author: Kelsey Day
Publisher: Kelsey Day
Published: 04/21/2021
Pages: 84
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.18lbs
Size: 7.00h x 5.00w x 0.17d
ISBN: 9780578901411


Review Citation(s):
Kirkus Reviews 08/01/2021

About the Author
Day, Kelsey: - Kelsey Day is a writer, environmental activist, and mental health advocate from southern Appalachia. Her work is urgent, timely, and relentlessly vulnerable, and has been published in literary journals such as Reservoir Road Literary Review, Storm Cellar Literary Magazine, Brave Voices Magazine, and Our Shared Memory Collective. She is a recipient of the University of Chicago's Young Memory Fellowship and is an honors student at Emerson College. She works with women from across the globe with the International Women's Writing Guild, is a staff writer for Two Story Melody, and serves as the Head Poetry Editor for The Emerson Review.