$14.99
“In her poetry collection, Rocking Chair at the End of the World, Sarah Bokich is a poignant poet writing sacred work about the complexities and comforts of family. Whether she assumes the voice of an abandoned daughter, a careful new mother, or a grieving woman, Bokich has a nimble poet’s eye that views both the terrible and the tender in her writing with clarity. In these poems, you will discover many fine narrative moments teeming with Sarah’s quiet celebrations, her intimate pains, and her heart’s welling courage to constantly forgive. This is a chapbook to cherish.”
–Tammy Robacker, author of Villain Songs
“Sarah Bokich’s poetry is attentive to the world as it emerges before our eyes. She blends the ecstatic with the elegiac, examining what she is able to understand and measure of life, birth, love, and death. These poems have a virtuosity of solemn joy. They illuminate what is rooted in the heart.”
–David Biespiel, author of A Long High Whistle: Selected Columns on Poetry
“Now you can read Sarah Bokich‘s ‘Bread,’ the devastating ‘Trading the Animals,’ the eerie ‘Visitors,’ and the elegy ‘Gods and Fathers’ in her first book, Rocking Chair at the End of the World.
–Peter Sears, Oregon Poet Laureate 2014-2016
Rocking Chair at the End of the World
by Sarah Bokich
$14.99, paper
978-1-63534-175-1
2017
Sarah Bokich is a writer and marketing consultant. She received her BA from the University of Portland, and her MBA from Portland State University. Her work has appeared in VoiceCatcher, Cloudbank, and The Timberline Review. Sarah lives with her husband and daughter in Portland, Oregon. She can be contacted at www.sarahbokich.com.
Susanne Layton –
The experience of reading Sarah Bokich’s poetry collection does not end on the last page. The clarity of her imagery rattles you, and her smart, delicate way of painting the world around her will leave you in a haze. I found myself gasping at times at her observations. These poems are moving, deeply insightful, funny, heartbreaking, and marked with a keen curiosity for life, both the seen and unseen. Her voice is singular, and her quiet work in this collection resounds.