$17.95 | May 2021 | 168 pp
Paperback | 978-1733308663
| Holding My Selves Together:
New and Selected Poems
Margaret Rozga
In Holding My Selves Together: New and Selected Poems, her fifth volume of poetry, former Wisconsin Poet Laureate Margaret Rozga brings together some of her best-loved poems about Milwaukee’s fair housing marches and her concern for issues of peace and social justice, with new poems that identify with Alice in Wonderland and imagine new Alice adventures. New poems also grapple with issues of recent political turmoil and pandemic-induced uncertainty. These deeply written poems find in language the glue that may hold our selves together.
  
*HONORABLE MENTION, Edna Meudt Poetry Book Award, 2021
Praise for Holding My Selves Together
“Rozga’s newest collection is deliciously dizzying, like a lakeside summer at the peak of day. Fiery, hazy, warm, and refuge, these pieces offer a generous scope of Rozga’s voice, views, and celebrations of the everyday.” —Dasha Kelly Hamilton, 2021-2022 Wisconsin Poet Laureate “Sorrow, despair, hope, rage, tenacity, faith. It’s all here, as it should be—Rozga’s poetry is an honest grappling with what it takes to fight for a better world.” —Nikki Wallschlaeger, author of Waterbaby "Margaret Rozga's Holding My Selves Together: New and Selected Poems is a master class in poetry: its movement, its tension, its bafflement, its power. As I read, I found myself speaking lines out loud, for the enjoyment of their brokenness. . . . I will return to Holding My Selves Together to hear these prayers again." —Jennifer Martelli, Presence: A Journal of Catholic Poetry
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