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What a stunning, sobering and heartbreaking collection this is. These poems, constellating around the speaker's relationship with her mother, are extraordinary reflections on a past that seemed intent upon demeaning misjudgments and willful misunderstandings. These powerful poems gather, one by one, into a lyrical and triumphant confrontation with the ghosts of that past. This is a book every mother, every daughter will want to read. --David St. John, Author of The Last Troubadour: New and Selected Poems Still I am Pushing, Candice Kelsey's debut poetry collection, is remarkable for the unflinching eye it casts on daughterhood and motherhood, on the terrors and, sometimes, beauties of childhood, on the complexities of our bodied lives. In intense and clear vignettes with structural allusions to classic literature, Kelsey mines the depths of her life, and by association our own lives. As she writes: steaming/inside every bone cold plate I bury/in the cupboard/ my mother, every mother. This is a remarkable first book--powerful and wise. --Gail Wronsky, Author of Imperfect Pastorals This skillfully crafted collection both aches with struggle and shines with strength. In Still I Am Pushing, Candice Kelsey's spare, haunting, and lyrical voice explores the shadowy spaces between mother and daughter, self and mirror, body and breath. This collection sings. --Marya Hornbacher, Author of Wasted: A Memoir of Anorexia and Bulimia

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CANDICE KELSEY's first book explored adolescent identity in the age of social media and was recognized as an Amazon.com Top Ten Parenting Book in 2007. Her poetry has appeared in Poet Lore, The Cortland Review, North Dakota Quarterly and many other journals. A finalist for Poetry Quarterly's Rebecca Lard Award, Candice's creative nonfiction was nominated for a 2019 Pushcart Prize. She is an educator of 20 years' standing, devoted to working with young writers. An Ohio native, she lives in Los Angeles with her husband and three children.

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