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WOUNDS FRAGMENTS DERELICT
POEMS BY CARLOS GABRIEL KELLY
Introduction by Sean Frederick Forbes
MAY 2019 | PAPERBACK $14.99 | EBOOK $6.99
POETRY | 130 pp. | 6.5” x 6.5”
ISBN: 978-1940939926 (pbk.) | ISBN: 978-1940939933 (ebk.) [COMING SOON]
MOTHER OF ORPHANS:
THE TRUE & CURIOUS STORY OF IRISH ALICE, A COLORED MAN’S WIDOW
by Dedria Humphries Barker
APR 2019 | PAPERBACK $18.99/EBOOK $6.99
AMERICAN HISTORY, AFRICAN AMERICAN STUDIES | 250 pp. | 6” x 9”
ISBN-13: 978-1-940939-78-0 (pbk.) | ISBN-13: 978-1-940939-87-2 (ebk.) [COMING SOON]
During the month of May, 2Leaf Press is pleased to announce the publication of to new writers: Carlos Gabriel Kelly, and upcoming poet who has been getting rave reviews from established poets, and Dedria Humphries Barker, whose book is a family history memoir derived from research discoveries that changed the dynamic of her family. Both books are available for pre-order on our website and other online outlets.
Carlos Gabriel Kelly’s debut poetry collection, WOUNDS FRAGMENTS DERELICT, is a love narrative, a novella consisting of fragments of poetry that express the torment of a relationship that clings to the heart even with the passage of time. Accompanied by a great introduction by poet and professor Sean Frederick Forbes, Kelly focuses on “Her” as he re-imagines his world through the prism of lost love, weaving ghosts of the past both metaphorically and figuratively, into a lush verse that is romantic, bold, erotic, and speaks to the heart. These are not your typical badly written, saccharine love poems, rather these poems are artfully written with bone rattling repetitions organized in couplets, tercets, and sometimes quatrains. In WOUNDS FRAGMENTS DERELICT Kelly distills the most exhilarating highs and heartbreaking lows of life and love into evocative lines that will become etched in the reader’s mind.
MOTHER OF ORPHANS is the compelling true story of Alice, an Irish-American woman who defied rigid social structures to form a family with a black man in Ohio in 1899. Alice and her husband had three children together, but after his death in 1912, Alice mysteriously surrendered her children to an orphanage. One hundred years later, her great-granddaughter, Barker, went in search of the reasons behind this mysterious abandonment, hoping in the process to resolve aspects of her own conflicts with American racial segregation and conflict. Written against a historical and cultural backdrop, the book also contains photographs, which helps unearth the fascinating history of a multiracial community in the Ohio River Valley during the early twentieth century.
Happy reading!
