Broken Hallelujah is a prairie-rooted meditation on grief, faith, motherhood, and the stubborn persistence of wonder. Set amid wind-scoured fields, gravel roads, critters, storms, and the ordinary domestic rhythms of life, these poems bear witness to an existence shaped by loss without surrendering to despair. Cyn Kitchen writes from the tension between belief and doubt, where praise arrives cracked, hesitant, and hard-won, and where attention itself becomes a kind of prayer. With language that is sensuous, precise, and unsentimental, the collection moves through solitude, loss and memory while remaining fiercely alive to the small, luminous moments that insist on meaning. Shot through with hope, these poems do not resolve the ache at their center; they stand in it, listening, watching, and singing anyway.
