The Toolbox Poems by Sandy Stark

$14.49

 

In celebrating the well-used tools that she relies on (everything from a tack hammer to …binoculars), Stark points to the more abstract tools of survival: repair, regeneration, a healthy appreciation for a good joke, and all “the ways you’ll adjust / to what’s possible, what’s been lost.” These are poems that can be leaned upon.
–Sarah Busse (Sarah Sadie), Madison Poet Laureate (2012-2015), Co-Editor, Cowfeather Press and Verse Wisconsin.

 

In The Toolbox Poems, poet Sandy Stark celebrates the arts of seeing, tending, and taking the measure of the world she loves–its prairies and bird life, old friends, new partners, her parents as they age…here is a master poet at work with craft and poignant insight.

–Robin Chapman, author of Dappled Things and One Hundred White Pelicans

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The Toolbox Poems

by Sandy Stark

$14.49, paper

Sandy Stark, Madison, Wisconsin, retired in 2006 from teaching literature and communications in favor of poetry, prairie restoration, and identifying songbirds more accurately than “bigger than a robin, smaller than a wren.”

Her poems have been featured in the Wisconsin Poets’ Calendar, the Texas Poetry Calendar, the former Wisconsin Academy Review, Verse Wisconsin,  Echolocations: Poets Map Madison (Cowfeather Press), & Soundings: Door County in Poetry (Carravagio Press), and at Madison Museum of Contemporary Art events.

Sandy’s book-length collection of poems, Counting on Birds (Fireweed Press, 2010) introduced the Stanley 346 measuring tape, her very first tool poem, the motivation for her new chapbook, The Toolbox Poems (Finishing Line Press).

 

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