Cobbled Bridges

"Kelley McKenna's poetry finds in each word sorts of finishings for shelter around which loss is terminal but temporary" (Peter Money, author of Oh When The Saints).

"There is intense life in the narrator, so strong was the experience of love and loss. Her fragmented story unfolds in front of our eyes: a personal abyss, a living soul of suffering bordering on agony to equal the physical agony of her dying husband" (Iztok Osojnik, from the introduction).

"Kelley McKenna's account of life with and without her late husband makes reading Cobbled Bridges a wrenching and moving experience...the book's language and diction are so exquisite and always so perfectly suited to its subject matter... I resort perforce to clich here, even as I try to match the author's own eloquence in my praise: Cobbled Bridges is so exquisitely rendered that it brings the reader to tears." ~ Sydney Lea (Vermont Poet Laureate, 2011-2015)