Barefoot and Running

By Morgan Liphart

Stunningly designed and heartbreakingly powerful. Liphart builds a world where anything can be healed and hope is a force that never lets go. 

Barefoot and Running invites readers to embark on a healing journey of poetry. It unfolds in its hands a promise of a softer world. 

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• Language: English
• Publisher: Morgan Liphart (Liphart LLC)
• Release date: Mar 23, 2021
• ISBN: 9781735957913

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PRAISE FOR

BAREFOOT AND RUNNING

"Morgan Liphart’s Barefoot and Running blends the topographies of place and heart to reach a fitful communion between them. At once lyrical and candid, these poems sojourn ‘across the border of ourselves’ into fresh realms of inner and outer weather. While this shared space may be tinged with regret, it is also elevated by the outstretched hand of possibility — the poet’s notion that indeed there are stars inside your bones at any altitude."

— Kevin Stein, author of American Ghost Roses and Illinois Poet Laureate 2003-2017

"In Morgan Liphart's work we encounter more than a distinct voice, we encounter a writer willing to be vulnerable, a writer of heart and intelligence. Even through the fog of grief Liphart bravely delivers the good news ‘Hope is not a dead language / it whispers in our sleep.’ In this collection of poems I believe it not only