Carrie Fountain

What I Have I Offer with Two Hands

Arts & Literature

“In the quiet, agile poems in What I Have I Offer with Two Hands, Jacob Stratman reveals the rich connections to be found in being a parent and being a believer, the unique pain and joy in watching our children enter the world and become part of it. To be a parent is to have faith; to have faith is to give away what our hearts possess so fully. As his title aptly states, Stratman offers us what he has with two hands. He gives it all. Lucky us.”