$14.99
Sherry Siddall’s Sweet Land rocks and waves with love of words and surround. Bareness crackles, winter’s gone – spring! Who has not experienced this! Sweet Land sings the tune exactly on pitch.
–Shelby Stephenson, poet laureate, North Carolina, 2015-18, editor of Pembroke Magazine for thirty-two years. Recent book: Shelby’s Lady: The Hog Poems.
The elegant, elegiac poems in Sweet Land are rooted in—but also transcend—the natural world. From the opening sonnet’s “Mock orange newly blown,” to the title poem’s “scrolling brown river,” and the final poem’s ashes that “are not soft like moth wings,” Sherry Siddall leads us through American landscapes of beauty, love, and loss.
–Beth Copeland, author of Blue Honey, winner of the 2017 Dogfish Head Poetry Prize
Sweet Land
by Sherry Siddall
$14.99, paper
978-1-64662-619-9
2021
Sherry Siddall lives with her husband and two rowdy dogs in Chapel Hill, North Carolina. Her work has appeared in Tar River Poetry, Kakalak, Pinesong and elsewhere, and has twice been nominated for a Pushcart Prize. Sweet Land is her first book.
Nancy Martin-Young (verified owner) –
So Much More than the Title Implies
The cover of Sherry Siddall’s Sweet Land entices readers to meander down her woodland path. Inside, wonders beckon: “the moon decants/its pour of milky light,” daffodils “play peek-a-boo,” “ducks cruise on chuckled water,” crickets chant. In this natural realm of fussing wrens, beseeching winds, and twining vines, the percipient poet embraces the irony of death as the inevitable fruition of so much life.