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With unapologetic honesty and a masterful use of language, Brenda Leigh White, in Blue Collar Saint, cycles through whimsy, curiosity, and harsh reality. Always questioning the world around her, White writes with sharpness, clarity, and wit, leaving the reader alternately gutted and longing for more.

-Cheryl Unruh, Kansas Notable titles: Flyover People and Waiting on the Sky; Walking on Water, & Gravedigger's Daughter: Vignettes from a Small Kansas Town

In her first poetry collection, Brenda Leigh White is no stranger to irony, to the way a sharp turn of phrase can feel like the gut punch we didn't know we needed. White's reflections on the small and big things in life are apt-from reflecting on how lost single shoes end up on the side of the road to her experience with the Vietnam War, White's poems are sharp observations of life and the ways in which we all navigate it.

-Lindsey Bartlett, Vacant Childhood

The verses in Blue Collar Saint were born on the assembly line, in the working-class spaces and places of this poetic traveler's journey. White shares her scars and lays bare a resilience rooted in wit, intelligence, and strength. This is a fine collection, from an authentic new voice in Kansas poetry.

-Kerry Moyer, Turnpike Prairie