Sweetened Condensed

Rebecca Grabill's first collection of poetry, published by Flying Ketchup Press, brings her readers home to rural Michigan and into the world of a woman on the path less traveled—wife, daughter, teacher, author, and mother of six.

Sweetened Condensed is two parts sugar, three parts milk: the life of a writer and mother of six encapsulated into raw moments of lyrical free verse with the author's black and white photography.

This is not a saccharine swig, but full-body, rich mouthful of poems and pictures that show the deep truth of family.

—Mary Logue, author of Sleep Like a Tiger

Beautifully illustrated with her black and white photos, the poems often surprise, frequently delight, and always satisfy.

—Caroline Grant, co-founder, Sustainable Arts Foundation