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Remaking illustrates the art of resilience. In her debut poetry collection, KM Kramer explores the process of transcendence over loss, grief, and violence. An owl who escapes from the zoo rediscovers freedom; myths get stripped like husks off corn; oak trees promise ""fat acorns"" for new beginnings; and Icarus pivots, avoiding ruin. Collaborative artwork by Joanna Baker depicts how we can journey to beauty from destruction.

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""The poems in KM Kramer's Remaking wear down trauma until the edges 'soften into sea glass.' These poems are not just about healing-they are healing, embodying care in both their language and forms. Kramer isn't afraid to get close to pain-these poems reveal 'yellow-brown/patches of scabs. Hot pink where one/has fallen off' and 'My chest: the mortar/where the pestle of worry/presses.' After inviting the reader into the intimacies of suffering, Kramer then models paths to recovery: Medusa pressing back against Athena's gaslighting; a mother empowering her son who has autism; Gisèle Pelicot persecuting her abusers; Circe's witchcraft signaling 'we need not be alone/on our own island.' Formally, the Shape Series poems liberate through form, dismantling linear narratives in favor of multiplicity and autonomy. The words of Remaking may stay on the page, but their powers soar far beyond it, just like the resilient 'seagulls manage to break free from the frame.'"" -Allison Pitinii Davis, author of Line Study of a Motel Clerk

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KM Kramer is a writer, previously a First Amendment attorney, who feels most at home in California. You can follow her award-winning work at KMKramerPoetry.com.

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