| #299691 in Books | 2015-09-22 | 2015-09-25 | Original language:English | 9.00 x.25 x6.00l,.30 | File type: PDF | 92 pages||0 of 0 people found the following review helpful.| She has beautifully written language that puts the reader in places that ...|By Heather|As an Appalachian poet, she dives deep into the culture. In these poems, she delves into this culture by language, imagery, and family. Her poems' main focus are her family (showcased in the beginning of the book) and use syntax as if she's speaking from her grandmother or mother. She has be||In this fully mature first book, Sherry Cook Stanforth braids together place, family, and music in imagery that ranges from homey as “hominy and banjos” to taut as a dulcimer’s string. Drone String re-members the familial past, and imagines h
Poet and musician Sherry Cook Stanforth’s long-awaited first collection of poems is as haunting and resonant as the sound of the drone string itself. The sustaining heart of these poems is family in its varied forms―root and branch and the song of wind rustling leaves―rendered always with the poet’s keen ear for language, eye for nuance and awareness of the world around her. Stanforth, too, does not shy away from poetry as exploration of self as she consi...
You easily download any file type for your gadget.Drone String: Poems | Sherry Cook Stanforth. A good, fresh read, highly recommended.