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Pushing Through the Jelly Fire: The poetry of Allison Grayhurst
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(front cover sculpture and photo of sculpture © by Allison Grayhurst)
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Book 8
Pushing Through the Jelly Fire
(2010, Edge Unlimited Publishing; ASIN: B00CHXZYOA; ISBN-10: 1478256567; ISBN-13: 978-1478256564)
Links to read each poem within the book:
Only for a time
https://allisongrayhurst.com/2014/01/11/only-for-a-time/
By This Light
https://allisongrayhurst.com/2013/04/13/by-this-light-2/
Eagle
https://allisongrayhurst.com/2017/08/12/eagle/
I Leave Whole
https://allisongrayhurst.com/2015/06/20/i-leave-whole/
Lost members of my tribe
https://allisongrayhurst.com/2017/03/15/lost-members-of-my-tribe/
This spirit is speaking
https://allisongrayhurst.com/2015/09/15/this-spirit-is-speaking-2/
Three days
https://allisongrayhurst.com/2015/09/16/three-days/
Walks
https://allisongrayhurst.com/2015/01/29/walks/
Something
https://allisongrayhurst.com/2017/03/21/23098/
Slowly, without reason
https://allisongrayhurst.com/2017/03/30/23301/
Getting Up
https://allisongrayhurst.com/2015/12/16/getting-up/
The oceans spill into a cup.
https://allisongrayhurst.com/2017/07/20/the-oceans-spill-into-a-cup/
Almost There
https://allisongrayhurst.com/2012/02/28/almost-there/
Impossible, Only Possible Way
https://allisongrayhurst.com/2015/12/17/impossible-only-possible-way/
Alone
https://allisongrayhurst.com/2015/12/19/alone/
A day called blackout
https://allisongrayhurst.com/2015/11/23/a-day-called-blackout/
The Gift of Fire
https://allisongrayhurst.com/2015/08/23/the-gift-of-fire/
A Good Perspective
https://allisongrayhurst.com/2015/07/08/a-good-perspective/
More
https://allisongrayhurst.com/2015/12/20/more/
Golden Eagle
https://allisongrayhurst.com/2016/05/01/golden-eagle/
pause
https://allisongrayhurst.com/2014/06/20/pause-2/
Entrance Door
https://allisongrayhurst.com/2015/11/27/entrance-door/
Interval of Parting
https://allisongrayhurst.com/2016/04/06/interval-of-parting/
Out of Time
https://allisongrayhurst.com/2015/06/21/out-of-time/
Speak
https://allisongrayhurst.com/2015/07/15/speak/
When we land
https://allisongrayhurst.com/2015/09/17/when-we-land/
With Power
https://allisongrayhurst.com/2015/12/01/with-power/
Saves
https://allisongrayhurst.com/2012/01/13/saves/
How does the seed know the sun
Time does not
https://allisongrayhurst.com/2015/02/20/time-does-not/
Covenant
https://allisongrayhurst.com/2015/12/18/covenant/
To Be Brave
https://allisongrayhurst.com/2015/12/02/to-be-brave/
Take
https://allisongrayhurst.com/2017/07/13/take/
Just before
https://allisongrayhurst.com/2015/11/30/just-before/
Taking off my hood
https://allisongrayhurst.com/2015/04/23/taking-off-my-hood/
World
https://allisongrayhurst.com/2017/02/10/world/
Lesson Learned
https://allisongrayhurst.com/2011/12/05/lesson-learned/
I have to push deep,
https://allisongrayhurst.com/2015/08/11/i-have-to-push-deep/
For Randy
https://allisongrayhurst.com/2017/04/15/for-randy/
Tied
https://allisongrayhurst.com/2015/12/21/tied/
A Way To Joy
https://allisongrayhurst.com/2017/08/13/a-way-to-joy/
When That Day
https://allisongrayhurst.com/2015/12/04/whe-that-day/
I see
https://allisongrayhurst.com/2017/09/08/i-see/
It Just Moves
https://allisongrayhurst.com/2015/06/23/it-just-moves/
Hell is High
https://allisongrayhurst.com/2015/12/22/hell-is-high/
Release Me
https://allisongrayhurst.com/2016/01/02/release-me/
If I Get There
https://allisongrayhurst.com/2017/07/19/26016/
No Ground
https://allisongrayhurst.com/2017/07/16/no-ground/
Chapel
https://allisongrayhurst.com/2015/11/26/chapel/
Meeting
https://allisongrayhurst.com/2015/06/24/meeting/
How To Chain The Madness
https://allisongrayhurst.com/2013/06/28/how-to-chain-the-madness-3/
Seeing
https://allisongrayhurst.com/2017/02/09/seeing/
Hands Open
https://allisongrayhurst.com/2015/12/23/hands-open/
Months Before Resurrection
https://allisongrayhurst.com/2015/05/17/months-before-resurrection/
Change of Destiny
https://allisongrayhurst.com/2017/04/19/change-of-destiny/
For My Children
https://allisongrayhurst.com/2013/09/30/for-my-children-2/
Remember
https://allisongrayhurst.com/2016/04/13/remember/
Before I Go
https://allisongrayhurst.com/2014/04/15/before-i-go/
Who?
https://allisongrayhurst.com/2017/07/24/who/
It is time
https://allisongrayhurst.com/2017/07/27/it-is-time/
From the days
https://allisongrayhurst.com/2017/04/30/from-the-days/
Pathway
https://allisongrayhurst.com/2012/01/06/pathway/
Colour comb the light.
https://allisongrayhurst.com/2015/06/25/colour-comb-the-light/
I let go
https://allisongrayhurst.com/2017/07/28/i-let-go/
Done
https://allisongrayhurst.com/2014/09/17/done/
Field
https://allisongrayhurst.com/2017/02/07/field/
Where I Fit
https://allisongrayhurst.com/2017/02/06/where-i-fit/
August 2
https://allisongrayhurst.com/2015/07/03/august-2/
The door is
https://allisongrayhurst.com/2012/07/12/the-door-is/
Love is not a shell
https://allisongrayhurst.com/2017/04/03/love-is-not-a-shell/
By the edge,
https://allisongrayhurst.com/2017/04/04/by-the-edge/
Walking
https://allisongrayhurst.com/2017/03/28/walking/
Where Corpses Lay Unburied
https://allisongrayhurst.com/2017/02/18/where-corpses-lay-unburied/
Bare Essentials
https://allisongrayhurst.com/2017/04/05/bare-essentials/
All the Light
https://allisongrayhurst.com/2015/07/04/all-the-light/
Illness
https://allisongrayhurst.com/2015/12/24/illness/
Holding Hands
https://allisongrayhurst.com/2017/07/21/holding-hands/
Our Love
https://allisongrayhurst.com/2017/06/05/our-love/
Will you?
https://allisongrayhurst.com/2015/06/26/will-you-2/
Forging a map
https://allisongrayhurst.com/2015/12/26/forging-a-map/
The Permanent Matter
https://allisongrayhurst.com/2015/07/16/the-permanent-matter/
I Dive To Rise
https://allisongrayhurst.com/2015/10/10/i-dive-to-rise/
between my fingers
https://allisongrayhurst.com/2015/02/09/between-my-fingers/
King dead
https://allisongrayhurst.com/2015/04/07/king-dead/
Otherwise thinking
https://allisongrayhurst.com/2014/12/23/otherwise-thinking/
I go to the crosswalk
https://allisongrayhurst.com/2015/06/27/i-go-the-the-crosswalk/
Your voice
https://allisongrayhurst.com/2017/04/29/your-voice-2/
Shedding
https://allisongrayhurst.com/2015/02/10/shedding/
I Can’t Land
https://allisongrayhurst.com/2011/10/31/cant-2/
Go
https://allisongrayhurst.com/2011/11/03/go/
Cold
https://allisongrayhurst.com/2015/08/22/cold/
More Than Commitment
https://allisongrayhurst.com/2017/09/06/more-than-commitment/
It Arrived
https://allisongrayhurst.com/2017/04/28/it-arrived/
He Must
https://allisongrayhurst.com/2017/04/25/he-must/
Wounded
https://allisongrayhurst.com/2015/01/13/wounded/
On Solid Ground
https://allisongrayhurst.com/2012/05/31/on-solid-ground/
being here
https://allisongrayhurst.com/2012/01/18/being-here/
My hands,
https://allisongrayhurst.com/2016/05/09/my-hands/
I was not a bird
https://allisongrayhurst.com/2015/03/22/i-was-not-a-bird/
On The Overpass
https://allisongrayhurst.com/2015/04/17/on-the-overpass/
Growing Up
https://allisongrayhurst.com/2017/09/10/growing-up/
Not Friendship
https://allisongrayhurst.com/2017/06/30/not-friendship/
Karma
https://allisongrayhurst.com/2017/04/06/karma/
Cocoon
https://allisongrayhurst.com/2017/04/07/cocoon/
Holding Out
https://allisongrayhurst.com/2017/04/08/holding-out/
Saturn on my back
https://allisongrayhurst.com/2015/12/27/saturn-on-my-back/
Everything turns
https://allisongrayhurst.com/2017/09/05/everything-turns/
When This Is Over
https://allisongrayhurst.com/2012/04/27/when-this-is-over/
Back of the book quotes
“When I read Allison Grayhurst’s poetry, I am compelled by the intensity and strength of her spirituality. Her personal experience of God drives her poetry. With honesty and vulnerability, she fleshes out the profound mystery of knowing at once both the beauty and terror of God’s love, both freedom and obedience, deep joy and sorrow, both being deeply rooted in but also apart from the world, and lastly, both life and death. Her poems undulate through these paradoxes with much feeling and often leave me breathless, shaken. Allison Grayhurst’s poems are both beautiful and difficult to behold,” Anna Mark, poet and teacher.
“A river is in Allison Grayhurst’s poems. Sometimes it rages over boulders hidden beneath rapids. Sometimes it is as calm and placid as a summer day reflecting skies so blue they are as unusual as a Stellar Jay’s wings. Sometimes it is as unpredictable as the rhythm of clouds gathering before a storm. Made up of words, emotions, thoughts, thoughts crystallized into ideas, this river, like most rivers, is unforgettable. One poem cascades after another into a flood of poetry. As in the poetry of Wallace Stevens, Allison Grayhurst’s work can be dense with meanings hidden beneath the flowing surface of words. The emotions in her poems sear with the power of Sylvia Plath. One layer reflects light over another layer of thought and emotion that leads to yet another layer. This is as serious a poet as is writing poetry today. For those adventurous enough to venture into a river wild, deep, calm, beautiful, shadowed, light, filled with moods and emotions of both an inner and the earth’s landscape, then this is a journey worth taking. It leads to experiences that have the texture and substance of life,” Thomas Davis, poet, educator, scholar, playwright, and novelist.
Reviews of Pushing Through the Jelly Fire
“This, (Pushing Through the Jelly Fire) is my second favorite book of poetry by Allison Grayhurst. I have it in paperback. I read a lot of poetry across a lot of blogs but Grayhurst’s work stands above the crowd and is of tremendous quality. I highly recommend this and The River is Blind. Her quality of writing is of a high standard and never ceases to lift my spirits as I turn pages in paperback or kindle,” Bruce Ruston, poet, photographer, founding editor of The Poetry Jar.
“Another Grayhurst masterpiece, Allison’s work has inspired me to continue creating and reading poetry,” Ann Johnson-Murphree, poet.
