words unspoken

WORDS UNSPOKEN, Ms. Gilstrap’s first book of poetry, is a collection of poetry from the heart - her own words dedicated to love - to a love finally found and then, out of love, relinquished, leaving all those words left unspoken - the acts left undone - the love unlived, unfulfilled. One writer describes Ms. Gilstrap’s poetry this way: An authentic gypsy soul lives inside the poetry of Jenean Gilstrap, who writes of the unspoken, the longings in the night, the closeness of the far-away and distance of the near. Gilstrap's words are images of love, in all its manifestations, but one should not so easily call these 'love poems.' Instead, the reader is invited behind closed doors to witness the passions and the gut-wrenching spirit of what love is, of what love makes possible, of that which is indeed a personal and protected space. This is a place where lovers knock down their walls of vulnerability and dance for as long as they can. We leave these interiors like voyeurs, and yet we also remain touched by the mastery of the words and the emotions they invoke. - Geoff Schutt - Novelist