The Stone Tries to Understand the Hands - by Susannah Sheffer (Paperback)

Book Synopsis

From Eduardo C. Corrall (author of Guillotine): "The Stone Tries to Understand the Hands is a dazzling book of poems-I underlined many lines and images. The electric particulars of the past and the sorrow of knowing dovetail into poems that pulse with music, pleasure. One of the greatest pleasures is the lyrical thinking that serpentines through the language. Another pleasure: the attentiveness to other texts, to language itself. This is a book with a wondrous reach, but it never loses sight of human intimacies and intricacies. Susannah Sheffer is a tremendously gifted poet. Her poems are deftly crafted, luminous."

Review Quotes

"These deep, clear, open-hearted poems unfold into stories about love and loss, growth, responsibility, hope. . . . They will go on booming in your heart after you close the book."

-Polly Shulman, author of the Grimm Legacy series

"Wonderful, enticing poems, tightly bursting with new meanings . . . I loved reading this strong, original collection."

-Suzanne E. Berger, author of Horizontal Woman

"These poems are spare and deeply felt. They are at ease with themselves, both surprising and strikingly honest, each one a separate light radiating from a hand closed to protect what it holds."

-Fleda Brown, author of Flying Through a Hole in the Storm