Sherry Cook Stanforth

This long awaited first collection of poems is as haunting and resonant as the drone string itself. The sustaining heary of these poems is family in its varied forms - root and branch and the song of wind rustly leaves - rendered always with a poest's keen ear for language, eye for nuance and awareness of the world around her. Stanforth does not shy away from poetry as exploration of self as she considers her place among the people and land that helped her.-Pauletta Hansel