HOUSE OF SPARROWS - NEW AND SELECTED POEMS By BETSY SHOLL

HOUSE OF SPARROWS
HOUSE OF SPARROWS
Item# 9780299323042
$18.95

The bluesy, rich, and vital poems in House of Sparrows look for grace and beauty not outside of the suffering world but within it. Betsy Sholl explores the shifting ironies and contradictions in the stories we tell—how the apple is both medicinal and poison, and how the poor are spiritually rich. Her language mines the landscapes of Appalachia, New England, and the works of Dante and St. Francis, seeking music and moral clarity in the breakages and noisy contradictions of life. By turns meditative and vivid, these poems suggest that all journeys are in part journeys of the spirit. Paperback; 176 pages.

Betsy Sholl is a former Poet Laureate of Maine and recently received the 2020 Maine Maine Writers & Publishers Alliance Distinguished Achievement Award.