New Orleans native St. Germain (English, Iowa State U.) shares personal essays about her hometown and the surrounding swampland, and losses in her own life and community. She incorporates what she sees as aspects of the Deep South the power of water, a love of the sensuous, a sense of the dramatic, dysfunctional family life, and having "a highly evolved sense of tragedy and, out of a need for survival, humor." Some of the essays appeared previously in various journals. Annotation (c) Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)

Swamp Songs

Biographies & Memoirs

St.Germain, Sheryl

Community & Culture

University of Utah Press

The mask of Medusa (Women writers chapbook)

Literature & Fiction

Mythology & Folk Tales

Cross-Cultural Communications

These poems celebrate and consecrate the physical world, moving from exotic to familiar locations, from the jungles of Ecuador and Mayan ruins in Central America to the rural lands and flooding creeks of Texas.

How Heavy the Breath of God (Texas Poets, No 5)

United States

University of North Texas Press

These poems celebrate and consecrate the physical world, moving from exotic to familiar locations, from the jungles of Ecuador and Mayan ruins in Central America to the rural lands and flooding creeks of Texas.

How Heavy the Breath of God (TEXAS POETS SERIES)

Making Bread at Midnight

Slough Pr

Fifty Miles is a memoir in linked essays that addresses addiction and alcoholism. The book traces the life and death of the author’s son, Gray, a talented but troubled young man, to a drug overdose at thirty, as well as the author’s own recovery from substance abuse.

50 Miles

Etruscan Press

In this collection of poetry the author finds, in the character of Scheherazade, a metaphor for what it means to write. The voices of these poems are deeply female, whether they be those of daughters, lovers or mothers; they remind us that the difficult truths of the imagination are rooted in the body. Here are poems that find love and redemption in darkness, intelligence and emotion in the erotic.

The Journals of Scheherazade

Sheryl St. Germain's prose poems and Janet Morgan's exuberant art celebrate not only woman and nature, but the intricate and imaginative ways they connect. The voices in these poems speak as woman, but also as water, earth, air, flora and fauna. Taken together, words and art create surreal portraits of the female as spiritual and physical embodiments of the natural world.

Metamorphoses: Poems by Sheryl St. Germain, Art by Janet Morgan

Poetry

Art and Adventures

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.

Let it be a Dark Roux: New and Selected Poems

Autumn House Press

This honest and haunting collection of poems follows the loss of the poet’s only son to heroin addiction. St. Germain takes us through the stages of her grief and offers no false promises or simple answers. These narrative-driven poems are a compelling and compassionate look into addiction and the effect it has on a family.

The Small Door of Your Death

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