Soundings

About the Book

These poems sing about Alana Sherman’s fundamental passions— love, family, domesticity and the small messages of loss and mortality that confront us everyday—with honesty of vision and remarkable clarity of style. Her forte is careful meditation on events and experience. The eye, ear and mind energize a voice that plumbs the ordinary to present us with wonders. “I love the quiet beauty and sensuous imagery of Alana Sherman’s poems. They are delightful and, in their own graceful way reassuring.” Lorraine DeGennaro “With intense vitality, great compassion and exceptional attention to design, the poems in Soundings deal with the eternal verities of life. Carrying the reader straight to the heart of their matter, these are poems born out of the experience of the whole person. Sherman’s work is intelligent and satisfying.” Martin Anderson

About the Author

Alana Sherman is the author of five other books including Everything is Gates, Home Ground and Outside The Window. She is a founder and co-editor of Alms House Press.