Poetry · 2024
Cultured Pearls
Close observation, hard-earned wit, and a life with more than one tone.
A forty-five-page chapbook that moves between commonplace moments and darker subjects with clear narration, precision, and nerve.
- Publisher
- Kelsay Books
- Edition
- 45-page paperback
- Published
- January 9, 2024
The first chapbook
What a life leaves glinting behind.
Cultured Pearls moves between commonplace occurrences and darker subjects with clarity, precision, and a performer’s sense of timing.
Memory, character, family, age, identity, and human oddity gather without being forced into one emotional register.
Buy on Amazon“From the first poem in Cultured Pearls, Dreis confirms her engagement with life, relishing the journey. Each observation blesses us through this poet’s gifts of clear narration and precision of language.”— Sam Barbee, poet and author
Another reader’s view
Stories worked into revealing images.
Poet Bill Griffin writes about the collection’s memories, losses, comedy, and closely observed lives.
Read the reviewPublished by Kelsay Books on January 9, 2024. Paperback · 45 pages · ISBN 978-1639804801.
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