Let it be a Dark Roux
New and Selected Poems
Published on 1. November 2007
Book
Paperback/Softback
152 pages
978-1-932870-16-9 (ISBN)
Description
In this retrospective collection, Sheryl St. Germain sings of her New Orleans upbringing, the Cajun/Creole culture, and the struggles of being a woman in a decaying culture.
Reviews / Votes
"Sheryl St. Germain is a courageous, wild, and disciplined poet." -Alicia Ostriker"Sheryl St. Germain's poetry is filled with sensual delight, with the enjoyment of good food, good company, and good music. While she travels the world, St. Germain returns again and again to her native New Orleans, to the bonds of family and the forces of nature that break through and spill over human walls and barriers. In Let it Be a Dark Roux, St. Germain teaches us how to embrace all the currents of life-its pleasures, its sorrows, its inevitable challenge to step out into the street and take up the dance once more." -Mary Swander
"I do not think I have ever encountered a poet less self-consciously or more powerfully female. St. Germain does not try to intellectualize or abstract her gender: neither does she try to escape from it. I am that I am, as Someone once said: she accepts herself with a fullness, with an intensity, and with a gloriously swaggering melodiousness that are, I think, new to poetry in our language." -Burton Raffel
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Language
English
Place of publication
Pittsburgh
United States
Target group
Professional and scholarly
Product notice
Paperback (trade)
Unsewn / adhesive bound
Dimensions
Height: 208 mm
Width: 140 mm
Thickness: 13 mm
Weight
218 gr
ISBN-13
978-1-932870-16-9 (9781932870169)
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Person
A native of New Orleans, SHERYL ST. GERMAIN currently directs the MFA program in Creative Writing at Chatham College. Her work has received awards, including two NEA Fellowships, an NEH Fellowship, the Dobie-Paisano Fellowship, and most recently the William Faulkner Award for the personal essay. Her books include Going Home, The Mask of Medusa, Making Bread at Midnight, How Heavy the Breath of God, and The Journals of Scheherazade. She has also published a book of translations of the Cajun poet Jean Arceneaux, Je Suis Cadien. A book of lyric essays, Swamp Songs: the Making of an Unruly Woman, was published in 2003.