Winter Sharp with Apples, by Annette Sisson
Praise for Winter Sharp with Apples
In Winter Sharp with Apples, Annette Sisson’s poetic gifts are on full display. Her language is crisp and clean—a readability that’s instructive, a readability rich with emotional and intellectual pleasures. I often found myself delighted by a line or an image, then felt myself pulled into a nexus of thinking and feeling. Her language is layered, resonant. Her gaze is attentive to the natural world and family. But she knows that the natural world has cycles; time will diminish flesh and bonds. Her poems summon forth the intimacies that illuminate, that shape our lives. Sisson is a marvelous poet. Her poems—deftly built, deeply felt—remind us love is what endures.
—Eduardo C. Corral, Guillotine (2020)
In Winter Sharp with Apples, Annette Sisson’s poetic gifts are on full display. Her language is crisp and clean—a readability that’s instructive, a readability rich with emotional and intellectual pleasures. I often found myself delighted by a line or an image, then felt myself pulled into a nexus of thinking and feeling. Her language is layered, resonant. Her gaze is attentive to the natural world and family. But she knows that the natural world has cycles; time will diminish flesh and bonds. Her poems summon forth the intimacies that illuminate, that shape our lives. Sisson is a marvelous poet. Her poems—deftly built, deeply felt—remind us love is what endures.
—Eduardo C. Corral, Guillotine (2020)
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Annette Sisson is the author of Small Fish in High Branches, published by Glass Lyre (2022). Her poems have been published in Valparaiso Poetry Review, Birmingham Poetry Review, Rust + Moth, Lascaux Review, Cider Press Review, Glassworks, Aeolian Harp Anthology, and elsewhere. She won The Porch Writers Collective’s 2019 Poetry Prize. In 2023, two of her poems were nominated for The Pushcart Prize and one for Best of the Net. She is Professor of English at Belmont University and lives in Nashville, Tennessee. Website Available at Terrapin Bookstore Amazon Bookshop |
