Metaphors Attempted In Conversation with My Doctor, featured via Verse Daily, July 2024
The Scarecrow of My Former Self: poems of illness and grace is available from Bookshop.org (support independent bookstores!)
Sarah Stockton’s Scarecrow of My Former Self … is a reclamation of visibility not just for Stockton’s speaker, but for all who have a chronic illness. These poems create a metaphorical scarecrow, a kind of spiritual scaffold on which to hang some hope. Like a conjurer, Stockton creates a world of desire crafted from “bloodied dancing shoes, a mask // and a sea green bathing suit…
Jill Khoury, Editor-in-Chief of Rogue Agent, author of Suites for the Modern Dancer (Sundress Publications) and Chance Operations (Paper Nautilus).
With vulnerability and gorgeous, lush imagery, Sarah Stockton presents a portrait of a life not defined by illness, but circumscribed by it; a hybrid life of hospital visits and encounters with crystal healers, coyotes, iguanas. Stockton's poems of simultaneous rage and grace illuminate the realities of the chronically ill.
Jeannine Hall Gailey, author of Flare, Corona (BOA Editions) and Field Guide to the End of the World (Moon City Press)
A single, large sunflower grows in front of a fir tree.
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