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questions by Sheri Sherman

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The poems in Sheri Sherman’s debut collection engage all the senses and enact deep noticing and mindfulness. The speaker notices “a tiny violet flower” on her mother’s eye after she has died, the speaker touches “the edge of a cloud,” and the speaker hears a single pine needle fall. These are poems of rapt attention.

–Arthur Sze

 

In Questions by Sheri Sherman, “moments stack up    angry little waves   pushing     each other into/ not quite silence    a sloosh of energy.” These short poems have all the power of a riptide. They knocked me over again and again until they pulled me into the sublime depths of her imagination, a place where the creatures of the deep (love, memory, time) breach the surface and make themselves known.

–Tomas Q. Morin

 

Straddling the line between poetry and prose, Sheri Cohen has invented her own form here to hold her complex questions about what it means to live in a world where she can begin with a pine needle and quickly move to where she leans her “head against / the sky.” This is a masterful accomplishment. Or we move from insects to “rows of houses like plastic bouquets” that are  “covering catacombs of years below.” It is that mystery beneath the real that Cohen explores which is also to explore our own depths. Along the way we meet a cast of real and literary characters, intimate and expansive places, hidden in her white spaces, for this is a sophisticated poetry where she embraces that mystery of the commonplace just as she lets “the stars slip into my eyes.”

–Richard Jackson, Author of The Heart as Framed: New and Select Poems.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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by Sheri Sherman

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questions include poems that bring a focused attention on everyday events and places to find the extraordinary in the ordinary. These poems are meditations on memories, nature, or a spot in time that crystalize how we live: moment to moment, within a  specific landscape and through individual experience. The use of little to no punctuation is to illustrate the continuity, interrelatedness, and near simultaneous nature of how we experience space, time, and thought. Within each of these poems there is an inherent question, sometimes obvious, sometimes implied, that does not beg an answer, only further inquiry.

An MFA writing graduate of Vermont College of Fine Arts, Sheri has worked as a copywriter and freelance journalist. Having lived in every region of the United States, she grew up in Virginia and now resides in San Diego and Vermont. Sheri graduated with a B.A. in English Literature from American University in Washington D.C. Prior to beginning her MFA, she attended the summer Iowa Writer’s Workshop. Her poetry has been published in Cutthroat, A Journal of the Arts and Poetry Miscellany, U-T Chattanooga. A critical essay was published in The Asheville Poetry Review as well as a literary paper in the Ljubljana University Journal in Slovenia. Her micro fiction piece, “Hospital Stay,” was published in On the Run. Sheri’s landscape photography and poetry feature the natural world and her interest in how time and space are experienced within our landscapes, our senses, and the human consciousness.

 

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