benediction is a poetry collection & mini memoir
by ollie pierce
"a reflection on a weird, intense past with religion and by extension god and being alive and belonging anywhere- a collage of feelings and memories and bible stories"
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i first had the notion to create this collection in spring of this year when, while pulling together a few of my favorite pieces for student literary submissions, i realized that a lot of my writing gravitates towards religious imagery and themes and experiences. a few pieces like the garden and margo and the serpent have been with me for a while. i came back to writing consistently after graduation and turns out that i have a whole lot to say about god! and the whole bizzarro belief system i used to build my whole world around.
i wrote a lot of this book over the summer, which was a gruesome process of digging up a lot of old memories and stuff i don’t always like to fixate on. the resulting collection is a reflection on a weird, intense past with religion and by extension my relationship with god and being alive and belonging anywhere- a collage of feelings and memories and bible stories. this is not everything i’ll ever have to say about it or even everything i have to say right now. but it’s what i wanted to share.
getting older, i notice i am able to look back and feel more sentimental, a mix of good and bad things about the way i grew up - more than i was even a few years ago. and the hurt seems a lot further away. still, i think it’s important to say that- even though this collection doesn't focus too much on the bad- there was a lot of it! and we barely made it out alive. but you can miss anywhere and anyone.
if you give it enough time.
128 pages - $12 paperback - $10 pre-order paperback
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