My second poetry book has been published by Kelsay Books. Here’s what reviewers say.
“Today and Other Seasons moves through landscape and memory. With a startling economy of language, Sarah Russell writes of coyotes ‘silent as smoke’ and an Amish market’s ‘chubby garlic bulbs, currants round as BBs, bunioned ginger toes.’ Sarah writes not only with stillness and precision, but with understated humor describing an old wringer washer as a ‘dowager on a dance floor’ and the courtship of finches as ‘a warbled discussion of real estate and love.’ There is so much to savor in this fine small collection.” — Sarah Carleton
“In her second collection, Sarah Russell embraces the fleeting, fluid rhythms of time. Her lyrical, quiet attentiveness to the natural world often evokes Mary Oliver. We encounter ‘an abacus of starlings,’ and the smell of ’dust and rain like a lover’s musk.’ Her pleasure at the daily routines and people who mark our lives recall the poems of Ted Kooser. She pays affectionate tribute to the uncle who taught her cribbage, and to a Montana rancher feeding cattle, his ’pitch fork separating clouds of gold, strewing it like a Silver Wolf high roller.’ Throughout, Russell’s images surprise and resonate — a hawk in winter, ’not wishing for tomorrow or warmth or spring — alive only in what is.’ Yes. — Mary Rohrer-Dann
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Congratulations Sarah!👏 The excerpts quoted in the reviews sound wonderful. I look forward to reading them in their full splendor! Evoking Mary Oliver, no less ~ bravo! 🥰♥️ Kati
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Thanks, Kati. It came out right at the beginning of Covid, and I haven’t been able to properly market it until now. No readings, nothing. Didn’t want it to come out in a vacuum!
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Congratulations Sarah!!!!! Can’t wait to read it!! That is a terrific review!
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Thanks so much Rajani! You’ve been busy too I see. And I loved your month of daily writing. What a supreme effort. Congrats!
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Sarah, this is an incredibly lovely review and I can’t wait to read it. so this is what you’ve been busy doing and keeping tucked away –
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Thanks, Beth. Usually a new poetry book has a “coming out” party, but the timing for this collection was so bad. Now’s the time to nudge it toward the light, I think.
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It’s already on my Amazon cart )
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Congratulations
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Thank you, Louella!
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Congrats Sarah, and what wonderful reviews! I’m looking forward to reading it.
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Thank you, Khaya! Let me know how you like it. Or better yet, send a review. I guess that’s how books get higher in the pecking order at Amazon. PS: I love your name. Does it have a meaning?
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Will do, when I finally get to reading it! About my name, thank you very much. 🙂 And yes it means Home in my mother tongue, Xhosa.
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That makes it even more beautiful. I see that it is a language of South Africa and Botswana. What a perfect way to remind you of your home. Are you here in the States or in Africa? Sorry, I may be asking too many questions.
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Congratulations, Sarah!
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Thanks, Marc. Still pinching myself!
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