<div>A collection of poetry with &ldquo;resilience throughout and an awareness of the common world that both comforts and devastates&rdquo; (Dorianne Laux, award-winning author of Only As the Day Is Long). From Tina Schumann, recipient of the American Poet Prize from The American Poetry Journal and a Pushcart Prize nominee, comes a full collection of fifty-six poems reflecting on the concept of self, loss, fragility, and the constructs we must create in order to face the transient nature of life. Praising the Paradox was named a finalist in the National Poetry Series, The New Issues Poetry Prize, The Four Way Books Intro Prize, and others. It was also listed as a &ldquo;remarkable work&rdquo; in the Tupelo Press open submission period. &ldquo;A rich guidebook for a life&mdash;a grand companion. These deeply satisfying poems, with their lush images and fluid sound movements, unfold in elegance, settling the spirit. In every stanza, Schumann&rsquo;s honest voice feels compelling and humble . . . Nothing forced, nothing labored. What a treat.&rdquo; &mdash;Naomi Shihab Nye, author of The Tiny Journalist &ldquo;Tina Schumann&rsquo;s stunning new collection is extraordinary in its intelligence. She has organized her poems by locating the innumerable paradoxes in our lives, in our minds, in the world. Her book is brilliantly unique and, I dare say, unrepeatable; she owns this territory. And what is so important about a paradox? The answer is that paradox is what the world is made of. The other (necessary) ingredient here is feeling. Praising the Paradox will make you feel, think, and reflect. Schumann&rsquo;s lines will resonate in your heart. They will resonate in mine forever.&rdquo; &mdash;Kelly Cherry, author of Observing the Invisible</div>

Praising the Paradox

<div>The IPPY Award&ndash;winning anthology of poetry, memoir, and essays&mdash;&ldquo;accounts of assimilation and nostalgia, celebration and resistance&rdquo; (Rick Barot, author of The Galleons). This collection contains contributions from sixty-five writers who were either born and/or raised in the United States by one or more immigrant parent. Their work describes the many contradictions, discoveries and life lessons one experiences when one is neither seen as fully American nor fully foreign. Contributors include Richard Blanco, Tina Chang, Joseph Lagaspi, Li-Young Lee, Timothy Liu, Naomi Shihab Nye, Oliver de la Paz, Ira Sukrungruang, Ocean Vuong, and many other talented writers from throughout the United States. Winner of a Bronze Medal from the Independent Publisher Book Awards for Multicultural Nonfiction &ldquo;When you hold in your DNA two countries&mdash;the cultures, the languages, the delicious foods and stories&mdash;you embody richness. These writers know on the cellular level many-layered ways to live, to struggle, to love. Here are voices we need to hear, writers we need to read. This is a brilliant, timely book, an antidote to divisiveness.&rdquo; &mdash;Peggy Shumaker, former Alaska State Writer Laureate &ldquo;The poets and writers in Two-Countries show that one result of our ongoing national experiment is a rich deepening in our literature. We may be in perilous times as a country, but our writers have never been in more ferocious health.&rdquo; &mdash;Rick Barot, author of The Galleons</div>

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Praising the Paradox

Two-Countries

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