Elisabeth Sharp McKetta Knihy

Exploring themes of transience, this collection weaves together poetry and artwork to depict a haunting journey through a snowy forest. As the narrative unfolds, readers follow the elusive presence of a beast, blurring the lines between hunter and hunted. The poems feature a more expansive form than in the authors' previous work, allowing for deeper exploration of nature's fleeting moments. This collaboration between Elisabeth Sharp McKetta and Troy Passey offers a unique blend of visual and literary artistry.

An inspiring guide to focusing on what matters most in life—and hitting delete on what doesn’t.Life is noisier, messier, and more complicated than ever. In our quest to keep up, we can lose sight of what we care about most, and instead try to do it all—with mixed results.In this beautiful call to examine and edit our lives, writer Elisabeth Sharp McKetta shares eight simple ways to cut through the clutter, drama, and overwhelm of modern life to live with more intention and joy. Inspired by her own experiments with reprioritizing, tiny house living, and finding the right balance of work and family time, Edit Your Life brings together personal narrative and practical takeaway, with inspiring results.Whether you’re pivoting, downsizing, relocating, or just ready to have more time and energy for the people and activities you love most, this engaging and practical guide will bring you on a journey of exploration and reflection—and point you toward the life you truly want to live.

Exploring the ocean's depths, this collaboration blends Troy Passey's atmospheric artwork with Elisabeth Sharp McKetta's thirty poetic fragments. The work reflects on how words serve as lifeboats amidst the challenges of mortality, encouraging readers to embrace courage and beauty. In support of its themes, a portion of the proceeds will be donated to the Suicide Prevention Action Network of Idaho, underscoring the book's commitment to fostering hope and resilience.

"Humane, amusing, touching, and very satisfying."―Phillip Lopate, author of To Show and to Tell: The Craft of Literary Nonfiction “Captivating and evocative and original.”―Grace Dane Mazur, author of The Garden Party “In the wise and funny essays that make up Awake with Asashoryu, Elisabeth Sharp McKetta asks vital questions about what it means to forge an adult life of one’s own.”―Lynn C. Miller, author of The Unmasking and The Day After Death At the heart of every essay in Elisabeth Sharp McKetta’s lively collection is the same question: How does one grow up without losing oneself? McKetta braids deceptively simple stories of her own life with the rich undercurrent of familiar childhood tales to reveal things both personal and universal and as close to the truth as possible. Whether she is spending sleepless nights watching the sumo wrestler Asashoryu with her father, settling into a new life in a fishing hamlet in Cornwall, struggling with a beloved and ultimately untrainable corgi named Goblin, or emerging from a night in the woods rethinking who she might be, McKetta’s essays sparkle and twist round and about—funny and insightful and compelling.