Book of Miracles
Poems
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Pub Date Mar 2 2027 | Archive Date Dec 1 2026
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Description
Poems that Explore the Miraculous Through Mystery, Longing, and Transformation
“Sometimes it’s hard to know a miracle / is a miracle.” Book of Miracles, Kelle Groom’s fifth poetry collection seeks commonplace or hidden miracles. These poems are an exploration of mystery and longing. The speaker’s experience of alcoholism and recovery propels a desire for transformation. The natural world also opens to the miraculous. Some poems are whirls, almost dervish, in which the speaker transforms into something/someone else—another form, multiple selves, changeable states.
While exploring the idea that if one pays attention, the unseen will reveal itself, the speaker is keenly aware of the time she lives in and the great human suffering which many in power dismiss and hide. The speaker trusts her own eyes, and the power of seeing. Throughout Book of Miracles, Groom invites us to see the miracles around and in ourselves.
A Note From the Publisher
Advance Praise
"In Book of Miracles, Kelle Groom harnesses the force of love in all its forms and remnants—what is distant and intangible, fleeting and enduring, lost and miraculously returned to us through memory, imagination, and language. Through the magic of metaphor, these poems find the miraculous in the commonplace and uncanny—from an ancient Greenland shark and the mysteries of the natural world to acts of kindness, ghosts, and the unbearable loss of a child. They hold destruction and repair, suffering and wonder in the same embrace, entering the liminal spaces where loss becomes transformation and survival itself becomes a miracle. Through startling images and language that reach beyond themselves, Groom reminds us that what feels most real is often what we cannot touch. What does time lock in us? And what, through love and language, might still be set free?"
-Richard Blanco, presidential inaugural poet and author of Homeland of My Body: New and Selected Poems
"Kelle Groom writes resplendent, emphatically empathetic poems. In Book of Miracles, she finds kinship with all living creatures including modern day ‘local saints’ and a four-hundred-year-old whale. She also finds a resilient kinship with the dead (including poet-friends and her young son) as very real ghosts sit down with her. Her poems glow with synchronicity—parents-as-children, fairy tales, history, and reincarnations. Groom has traveled far with her ‘Passport to the Moon,’ and she’s here to tell us all about her glorious adventures."
-Denise Duhamel, author of Pink Lady
"The worlds inside this book! The world of the dead, of dreams, of mangroves and right whales, the ever-present past and the lush, layered now: They are all here, fully alive, not separated by even the thinnest membrane. Now I realize I barely knew these worlds until I had Kelle Groom’s poems to teach me. She is a true visionary, and I know of no other poet like her."
-Kasey Jueds, author of The Thicket
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- National print and online reviews
- Galley mailing
- Online promotion
- Select author appearances
- Social media outreach
- Feature at AWP 2027
Available Editions
| EDITION | Paperback |
| ISBN | 9780822968740 |
| PRICE | $20.00 (USD) |
| PAGES | 80 |