ISBN: 978-0-9987810-4-4
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With gentle imagery and language, Sandy Roberts explores her own spiritual roots and survival of growing up in the deep South of 1940’s Texas, and the pain and hardship of the changing physical and political landscape.
Emily Dickinson kept at her side the two same books that were prominent in Sandy’s own childhood home – the dictionary and the bible. Perhaps those books were enough to plant the seed to love words, language, and the images and the connections.
Roberts’ work offers us a meditative opportunity to explore and connect with our own inner knowing, longings, and desires; to delve into the richness of memory and imagination; and to integrate all of that into the power of your present experience – the present moment. Roberts invites us to pause.
If only I could find a place
to throw away my pain,
I wouldn’t give a damn about the sin.
“ This second collection of her work reveals Roberts’ careful attention to language and form, rhythm and image. From haiku to villanelle, Roberts writes about love, loss, and longing with a close examination that rewards several readings, and which respects the perspective distance provides.”
John F. Evans, MAT, MA, Ed.D
Cover Design by Daniel Krawiec
Cover and interior art by Vera Kayukova in Dnepropetrovsk, Ukraine
Communicating the miracle of beauty, diversity, and perfection of the natural world tangled in the human gaze, Roberts’ and Kayukova’s art and poetry twine perfectly together throughout this book.