Strong Medicine - poems by Beatrice J. Krauss
A debut poetry collection decades in the making. 96 pages.
This moving collection debuts Beatrice J. Krauss as a poet decades in the making. Her exceptional life fills this volume through the memories of those she has loved and championed. “You are supposed to write about what you know,” she says—so patients in the HIV epidemic are here, as are her parents and children, her fellow musicians and her harp, detained immigrant children, and her own childhood companions. Krauss’s poems treat enduring sadness with nature, art, friendship, and wicked humor: the strongest medicines she knows.
The exquisite edition is currently in a limited first printing. Run on heavyweight 80# paper with a matte cover finish, printed and perfect bound in New Mexico. Signed copies of the exquisite edition are available, with an added $3 to cover shipping books to the author for signing. The bookstore edition is run on 50# creme paper and printed in the USA. Featuring cover art by Alifie Rojas.
“The poems in Strong Medicine are like a garden, tended and growing, lovely but insistent. Here a memory blossoms, a leaf overturns old grief. From mountain laurel to a medication label, Krauss leads the reader through a convergence of selves, lives lived and remembered, just as lush and vivid as they once were.”
– Amaris Feland Ketcham, poet, author of Glitches in the FBI and Best Tent Camping: New Mexico
“Beatrice Krauss’s Strong Medicine is just that—powerful medication for the soul and mind. It makes you think, reflect, and feel. It evokes wonder in what we once saw as the commonplace. This is a book you will treasure—reading your favorite poems time and time again.”
– Kenneth J. Doka, PhD, author of Grief Is a Journey and When We Die: Extraordinary Experiences at Life’s End
“I loved Strong Medicine. … Half-way through Beatrice Krauss’s book of poems, I had to stop and sit with the echoes of grief still running with current through her stanzas, stark beauty in prose that sings. Beatrice captures time and place in words the way only a poet who has experienced life in all its intricacies and fullness could. Her words, like notes pitch-perfect, will leave you gasping one for the next.”
– Joseph Lunievicz, author of the novel Open Wounds