Hurricane Vignette
Avery Kilpatrick
Book Details:
Genre: Poetry, Inspirational, Women Poets
Publisher: Avery Kilpatrick
Date of Publication: June 18, 2020
ASIN: B088KTYWPS
Number of pages: 64 pages
Word Count: 4,354
Cover Artist: Anna Claire Garrard
About the Book:
From debut poet and author Avery Kilpatrick, Hurricane Vignette tells the story of a difficult time in her life—a time of struggle, depression, suicide, recovery, and triumph. This poetry collection is a personal diary of Kilpatrick’s most inner thoughts and her journey of healing.
These poems are filled with raw emotion and contain sensitive subjects such as suicide, depression, and anxiety. However, like most stories, there is a happy ending—a moment of clarity that evokes peace and victory over the chaos of life.
An
Artist’s Cage
Sculptors
and painters—bringers
of life and molds.
Fingers feather over
their lines and angles,
providing
guiding hands
for
Da Vinci or Shakespeare,
Aetion
or Nikosthenes—
the
Muses helped bring their
inspirations
to life. A cage of color
and
stone inescapable—unbreakable—
placed
in a gallery for all to see.
A
pillar that others should strive to achieve the
perfection of the woman:
traditional
chocolate hair with
a lean, willowed figure,
cherry
lips, painted face, shining eyes, and smiles.
The
pinnacle of a natural standard of beauty—
pretty, nice, braindead, submissive,
who
relies on the Father,
their Creator—or the Husband.
All
independence erased by
white paint or another block of
clay.
And
the Muses, beautiful
women who guided men,
developed the cage, building a masterful
piece
of iron, entrapping their fellow sisters.
About the Author:
Avery Kilpatrick was born in Flowood, Mississippi, in April 1996. Raised in a small town in the Mississippi Delta, she has a fondness for nature and the cotton fields that create Southern snow pastures in the fall. After writing her first novel when she was thirteen, Avery decided to pursue her dream as an author at a young age.
An alumnus of Delta State University in Cleveland, Mississippi, Avery graduated with a Bachelor’s in English. She also worked on the student-run newspaper, The Delta Statement, during her four-year career at Delta State as copy-editor and Editor-in-Chief.
Avery currently lives in a ranch-style home in her hometown in Greenwood, Mississippi. The mother of three fur babies, Cinnamon the spoiled cat, Ginger the rambunctious old lady, and Remington a.k.a. Remi the service dog, Avery has enough fur from shedding animals to make a fourth pet. When Avery isn’t busy writing her next novel, she goes on walks with her mother and dogs, watches Outlander or Criminal Minds on Netflix, or can be found curled up on the couch with Cinnamon reading a good book.
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