Like kintsugi, the Japanese art of repairing a broken vessel with lines of tree sap and gold, the poems in Sandra McPherson\'s new book, Speech Crush, run a vein of intelligence and attention through often harrowing experiences-of deep loss, of scammers and self-immolators, of institutionalization and separations that rival those of Elizabeth Bishop\'s One Art. - Karen An-hwei Lee, author of Rose is a Verb: Neo-Georgics, Sonata in K, Phyla of Joy, Ardor , and In Medias Res.
This book is a rare and tremendous gift.
This dazzling treasury celebrates the bejeweled fruitfulness of a woman\'s life-journey with the strength and tenderness of a redwood\'s annular rings. - Jordan Smith, author of Little Black Train and Common Spirits Readers intimately acquainted with Sandra McPherson\'s vivid, metaphorical voice and her wise poetic conscience over the decades-as well as readers encountering her soul-stirring poems of the environment for the first time, or delighted by her daughter\'s precise musicality in the title poem-will receive blessings beyond measure from Speech Crush.
Here it is.
And like the work of Bishop and Leonard Cohen, two poets whose long practice led us to a place whose gates are suffering and wisdom, McPherson\'s poems ask us to take into ourselves a wrecked, a transformed beauty.
Like kintsugi, the Japanese art of repairing a broken vessel with lines of tree sap and gold, the poems in Sandra McPherson\'s new book, Speech Crush, run a vein of intelligence and attention through often harrowing experiences-of deep loss, of scammers and self-immolators, of institutionalization and separations that rival those of Elizabeth Bishop\'s One Art
