young girl in the flower of time - Paperback

Kathleen Hellen's poems skip across the page, daring you to exhale, they scuttle in your mouth and rattle in your heart. The young the girl the flower the time all speak at once, grasping at connection in the wilderness and wildness of adolescence. You cannot look away - the poignancy of vulnerability, the meanness of the world that seeks to bruise the most tender petals - in these fiery poems of defilement, beauty and spirit triumph. - Mary Buchinger, author of There Is Only the Sacred and the Desecrated