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Frogs Don't Sing Red
Paperback
ISBN13: 9781639803163
Publisher: Kelsay Books
Published: Apr 27 2023
Pages: 98
Weight: 0.31
Height: 0.20 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English
Sandi Stromberg is a master of the craft of poetry, particularly ekphrastic poetry. Here are stunning jewels that take us deeper into our interior world and transport us outside of ourselves simultaneously. Her inspiration and influence are so often from art, something her words teach us to look at with our whole soul. These poems are tightly woven around vivid details. Images spell out the everyday. Yet, they also double as epic motifs and symbols. Her poetry confronts death as courageously as it confronts life, always juggling the beauty and pain of all that is right in front of us, with honesty and candor.
-Lorette C. Luzajic, editor, The Ekphrastic Review
Moments of Prayer-that's one of Sandi Stromberg's chapter titles in this remarkable new collection. It's an apt title: each poem reads like prayer distilled to an essence, each poem a meditation, acutely aware both of joy and of loss. Stromberg's husband died during the writing of Frogs Don't Sing Red. The presence of your absence insists I mourn, she writes. Grief plays hide and seek. And this: Now only / my passport knows my name. Readers will find heartbreaking beauty in these pages-and the strength of someone who knows she must go on. And does.
-David Meischen, author of Anyone's Son, Best First Book of Poetry, Texas Institute of Letters
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