$14.00
In these strongly imaged and imagined poems, filled with light, fish, musics, men and water, Sergi houses the words, objects, desires and loss that make a life. In one poem a lover night-asks, “What are you looking for?” and the narrator replies, “The next line.” Sergi’s surprising, rhythmic, sonically charged lines will keep the reader looking for the next line also.
–Susan Firer
Rating: ***** [5 of 5 Stars!]
Love in all its moods and seasons stands at the center of Paula Sergi‘s Black Forest Love Songs, her strongest collection yet. This sumptuous suite ranges from small town Wisconsin to the German forest of the title poem, with stops in California, Alaska, Oregon and elsewhere, including the fields of dream. The voice here is wise and wistful, the emotional clarity notable, and the lines rich with music and dramatic detail. Sergi displays an especially sharp eye for gray areas of both thought and feeling. “I want it all,” the speaker of one poem admits; and of course wanting is at the core of life’s sweetness as well as its losses. In fact, this book does have it all: music, honesty, and unforgettable turns of phrase and thought in every poem. A highly readable and haunting chapbook.
–David Graham
Rating: ***** [5 of 5 Stars!]
Black Forest Love Songs
by Paula Sergi
$14, paper
Paula Sergi is the author of Family Business, a chapbook of original poems, and co-editor of three anthologies: Boomer Girls: Poems by Women from the Baby Boom Generation, Meditations on Hope, and A Call to Nursing.A Wisconsin Arts Board Artist Fellowship recipient, her poetry is widely published, including such journals as RATTLE, The Bellevue Literary Review, Crab Orchard Review, and Spoon River Poetry Review.
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