THE BODY IS BURDEN AND DELIGHT
By Sharon White. Cornerstone Press, 2023.
In The Body Is Burden and Delight, Sharon White crafts a poetic mosaic that examines ecological communities in fragile northern landscapes, and in the geography of the poet’s daily life. Weaving poetry and prose, White attends to the voices of women from several places (and times), including Denmark, Sweden, Lithuania, Shetland, and Wales, exploring the inner landscape of myth and dreams inspired by a deep connection to the earth, and the beauty and loss inherent in those ecosystems. ...