Sweet Land

Sherry Siddall's Sweet Land rocks and waves with love of words and surround. Bareness crackles, winter's gone-spring! Who has not experienced this! Sweet Land sings the tune exactly on pitch.-Shelby Stephenson, poet laureate, North Carolina, 2015-18, editor of Pembroke Magazine for thirty-two years. Recent book: Shelby's Lady: The Hog Poems.The elegant, elegiac poems in Sweet Land are rooted in-but also transcend-the natural world. From the opening sonnet's "Mock orange newly blown," to the title poem's "scrolling brown river," and the final poem's ashes that "are not soft like moth wings," Sherry Siddall leads us through American landscapes of beauty, love, and loss.-Beth Copeland, author of Blue Honey, winner of the 2017 Dogfish Head Poetry Prize