The Missing Sea - Softcover

Dolejsi, Kelly

Softcover

ISBN 13: 9798899902901

Publisher: Finishing Line Press, 2025

Synopsis

The Missing Sea begins in a boat without water, "surrounded by nothing," and throughout the poem series asks, Who am I without my mother? The death of one's mother is one of the hardest things many of us ever go through - and that we continue going through for the remainder of our lives. Yet, in the book, presence, not absence, prevails. An abandoned dog finds her valentine. Chickens from an imagist poem spring to life. Antique lamps bring a mother and daughter together. The Missing Sea is about reclaiming oneself after a devastating loss. It's about coming back, or maybe coming forward as one's whole self, for the first time. And Jen Jordan's lovely, child-like drawings capture the feeling perfectly.

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About the Author

Kelly Dolejsi has published poetry and fiction in numerous literary journals, including North American Poetry Review, Denver Quarterly, The Cincinnati Review, Fifth Wednesday, The Hunger, Broken Ribbon, West Texas Literary Review, Junto, Gravel, Dirty Paws, The Hungry Chimera, Joey and the Black Boots, and The Disconnect. Her poem "Loyalty" was nominated for the Best of the Net, and her contribution to the book, September 11, 2001: American Writers Respond (edited by William Heyen) was nominated for the Pushcart Prize. Her chapbook, That Second Starling, was published in 2018 by Desert Willow Press. She has also written theatrical plays, newspaper columns, and feature news stories for her local community in Los Alamos, NM. She received her MFA in Creative Writing from Emerson College in Boston.

Edition details

• Publisher: Finishing Line Press
• Publication date: 2025
• Language: English
• ISBN 13: 9798899902901
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 92