Between the Space of Grace and Gray

About the Book

This first published volume contains poems accumulated over nine years but reflects experience from the author’s earliest memories to the present. Dana Larkin Sauers seeks to achieve a balance of intellect and emotion in addition to the continuum of grace and gray. The release of grace in its purest form— laughing, embracing, and celebrating— can best be sensed in what she insists is her signature poem: ROOTBEER/ A letter shouldn´t mean so much/ but yours was like/ a frosted mug of root beer/ in July/ up and over/ onto the countertop/ so lathered and sweet/ the aftertaste was long./ Through the collection’s grayness she simply states the reality and lets the audience consider with the speaker the mystery, complexities and revelation of such concepts as love, spirituality, suffering, and wisdom in their various forms and degrees.

About the Author

DANA LARKIN SAUERS, Hanover, Pennsylvania’s second Poet Laureate, has dedicated her life to the celebration and discipline of language. Poet, educator, editor, art advocate, her 2012 trip abroad revealed an inner vocation to serve the poor in Central and South America. Sauers resides in Hanover with her husband Kent and is joyfully anticipating her new adventure as grandmother.