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All in the Family

Courtney LeBlanc

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Description:Courtney LeBlanc's second chapbook, All in the Family, is a collection of poems that delves into the nuances of relationships within families: good, bad, and truly ugly.Courtney LeBlanc’s collection, All in the Family, may appear a pastoral still-life of a family, until you notice the author in the painting smirking, or flinching with pain. LeBlanc writes so specifically of her own family, yet this could be your family too. Full of churches and gardens, of death and blooming, LeBlanc writes “the sugar bites my teeth” — and that is exactly what this collection can do — fool you with its sweetness until you feel the old familiar rot of living.—Megan Falley, author of After the Witch Hunt and Redhead and the Slaughter King (Write Bloody Publishing 2012 and 2014) Courtney LeBlanc’s All in the Family gets at the heart of Midwestern stoic yet solidly loving farm family relationships like nothing else I’ve ever read. LeBlanc writes of sisters playing, “our father in the fields the whole time, / his skin baking in the sun like the mud pies / we made” and of a mother who “does the dishes, the laundry, / bakes bread and cookies. / Specializes in hotdishes and crockpot recipes.” Yet underneath, there is always the threat of what lurks both outside and inside, the tornadoes, the unexpected family storms. All in the Family is a brilliant collection that should live in our hearts and on our bookshelves. I only wish it were longer! —Shaindel Beers, author of A Brief History of Time and The Children’s War and Other Poems (Salt Publishing 2008 and 2013)A beautiful, moving collection. Courtney LeBlanc is a master of the stark line that leaves you reeling. In poem after poem, she tell stories in precise, unadorned statements that are heartbreaking in their simplicity. There are a lot of silences in these poems too—silences that carry as much weight and feeling as the words that interrupt them. The themes explored in the collection are universal: family relationships, illness, aging, distance, death. The poems are deeply personal, but their honesty is what makes them so powerful and relatable. The true gift LeBlanc has given us is that, by telling us about her family, she has allowed us to see some truths about our own families too.—Adriana Cloud, author of Instructions for Building a Wind Chime (Poetry Society of America 2016)Across these punchy, readable pages, LeBlanc concerns herself with family. The title of the collection—All in the Family—suggests a comfort and certainty that the poems then blow apart. These are poems that ask seemingly simple questions: Who do we count as family, and why? What are we willing to do for family? What are we willing to walk away from? But as each poem illustrates, these questions can prove difficult to answer, if not painful. Together, this collection represents a brave effort on LeBlanc's part, and a deeply worthwhile read for the rest of us.—Jessica Young, author of Alice’s Sister (Turning Point 2013)We have made it easy for you to find a PDF Ebooks without any digging. And by having access to our ebooks online or by storing it on your computer, you have convenient answers with All in the Family. To get started finding All in the Family, you are right to find our website which has a comprehensive collection of manuals listed.
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Pages: 31

Format: PDF, EPUB & Kindle Edition

Publisher: Bottlecap Press

Release: 2016

ISBN: 1946340057

Description: Courtney LeBlanc's second chapbook, All in the Family, is a collection of poems that delves into the nuances of relationships within families: good, bad, and truly ugly.Courtney LeBlanc’s collection, All in the Family, may appear a pastoral still-life of a family, until you notice the author in the painting smirking, or flinching with pain. LeBlanc writes so specifically of her own family, yet this could be your family too. Full of churches and gardens, of death and blooming, LeBlanc writes “the sugar bites my teeth” — and that is exactly what this collection can do — fool you with its sweetness until you feel the old familiar rot of living.—Megan Falley, author of After the Witch Hunt and Redhead and the Slaughter King (Write Bloody Publishing 2012 and 2014) Courtney LeBlanc’s All in the Family gets at the heart of Midwestern stoic yet solidly loving farm family relationships like nothing else I’ve ever read. LeBlanc writes of sisters playing, “our father in the fields the whole time, / his skin baking in the sun like the mud pies / we made” and of a mother who “does the dishes, the laundry, / bakes bread and cookies. / Specializes in hotdishes and crockpot recipes.” Yet underneath, there is always the threat of what lurks both outside and inside, the tornadoes, the unexpected family storms. All in the Family is a brilliant collection that should live in our hearts and on our bookshelves. I only wish it were longer! —Shaindel Beers, author of A Brief History of Time and The Children’s War and Other Poems (Salt Publishing 2008 and 2013)A beautiful, moving collection. Courtney LeBlanc is a master of the stark line that leaves you reeling. In poem after poem, she tell stories in precise, unadorned statements that are heartbreaking in their simplicity. There are a lot of silences in these poems too—silences that carry as much weight and feeling as the words that interrupt them. The themes explored in the collection are universal: family relationships, illness, aging, distance, death. The poems are deeply personal, but their honesty is what makes them so powerful and relatable. The true gift LeBlanc has given us is that, by telling us about her family, she has allowed us to see some truths about our own families too.—Adriana Cloud, author of Instructions for Building a Wind Chime (Poetry Society of America 2016)Across these punchy, readable pages, LeBlanc concerns herself with family. The title of the collection—All in the Family—suggests a comfort and certainty that the poems then blow apart. These are poems that ask seemingly simple questions: Who do we count as family, and why? What are we willing to do for family? What are we willing to walk away from? But as each poem illustrates, these questions can prove difficult to answer, if not painful. Together, this collection represents a brave effort on LeBlanc's part, and a deeply worthwhile read for the rest of us.—Jessica Young, author of Alice’s Sister (Turning Point 2013)We have made it easy for you to find a PDF Ebooks without any digging. And by having access to our ebooks online or by storing it on your computer, you have convenient answers with All in the Family. To get started finding All in the Family, you are right to find our website which has a comprehensive collection of manuals listed.
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