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What Life Is Like Here on Earth

What Life Is Like Here on Earth - Paperback

by Katherine Riegel
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Availability:In StockContributor:Katherine Riegel, Hayley HaugenTheme:Sex & Gender/Feminine, Topical/Women's InterestPublish date:4/30/2026Pages:86
Languages:EnglishPublisher:Sheila-Na-Gig EditionsISBN-13:9781962405737ISBN-10:1962405737UPC:9781962405737Book Category:PoetryBook Subcategory:American, Women AuthorsSize:8.50 x 5.50 x 0.21 inchesWeight:0.109Product ID:SCQX62MA7S

What Life Is Like Here on Earth dashes between images of hope and joy like a pedestrian caught in a downpour without an umbrella; there's no denying the cold, pelting rain of personal and environmental loss, but even so, there are animals, kind strangers, and love. These poems let readers in on a Midwestern childhood with horses, a woman's life in two generations, the interior monologue of a middle-aged person with chronic illness. They're heartbroken, angry, self-deprecating. Magic peeks into the ordinary world from the distant past and the inevitable future. What happened and what's imagined exist side by side. What do you long for? What makes you suffer? What gives you solace? You know what it's like, this life here on earth.

Languages:EnglishPublisher:Sheila-Na-Gig EditionsISBN-13:9781962405737ISBN-10:1962405737UPC:9781962405737Book Category:PoetryBook Subcategory:American, Women AuthorsSize:8.50 x 5.50 x 0.21 inchesWeight:0.109Product ID:SCQX62MA7S
Riegel, Katherine: - Katherine Riegel's most recent book is a lyric memoir about her sister and grief, Our Bodies Are Mostly Water (Cornerstone Press, 2025). Her previous collections of poetry are Love Songs from the End of the World (Main Street Rag, 2019), Letters to Colin Firth (Winner of the Sundress Publications Chapbook Competition, 2015), What the Mouth Was Made For (FutureCycle, 2013), and Castaway (FutureCycle, 2010). Her poems have appeared in Poets Reading the News, Rattle, SWWIM, Thimble, and elsewhere. Co-founder and managing editor of Sweet (sweetlit.org), she runs online writing classes in poetry and flash creative nonfiction. Find her at katherineriegel.com and in southern Scotland, where she moved in summer 2025 with her British husband, two Golden Retrievers, and two cats.Haugen, Hayley: - Founding editor, Sheila-Na-Gig Editions
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