Overview
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āThisĀ empathetic, honest, and intimateĀ collection is chockful of poems remindingĀ the reader toĀ love earnestly, live freely, and pay attention.āāKate Baer, #1 New York Times bestselling author of And Yet and What Kind of Woman
First, you must realize youāre homesick for all the lives youāre not living. Then, you must commit to the road and the rising loneliness. To the sincere thrill of coming apart.
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So begins Joy Sullivanās Instructions for Traveling Westāa lush debut collection that examines what happens when we leave home and leap into the deep unknown. Mid-pandemic, Sullivan left the man she planned to marry, sold her house, quit her corporate job, and drove west. This dazzling collection tells that story as it illuminates the questions haunting us all: What possible futures lie on the horizon? What happens when we heed the call of furious reinvention?Ā
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A book for anyone flinging themselves into fresh starts, Instructions for Traveling West grapples with loss, loneliness and belonging.Ā These poems teach us that naming our desire is profound alchemy. Each of us holds the power to set our own course forward.
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Expansive and heart-openingāexquisite in their specificity, galvanizing in their scopeāthe poems in Instructions for Traveling West speak to the longing that lives within us all. They remind us that ājoy is not a trick.ā
This book title, Instructions for Traveling West (Poems), ISBN: 9780593597613, by Joy Sullivan, published by Random House Publishing Group (April 9, 2024) is available in paperback. Our minimum order quantity is 25 copies. All standard bulk book orders ship FREE in the continental USA and delivered in 4-10 business days.
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