These poems are a meditation on the myriad divisions and inequities we face, both personally and as a society. In
Disconnects and Other Broken Threads
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award-winning poet Emily-Sue Sloane pulls on many of the fraying threads that divide us and gently weaves them with striking imagery to inspire connections through hope and, at times, humor.
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"Like a gardener cultivating a bonsai tree, Emily-Sue Sloane takes big, wild concepts like mortality, impotent rage, grief and regret and presents them to us as stark small snapshots of everyday life."
-Rorie Kelly, singer/songwriter,
Shadow Work
"Sloane sees, feels, and speaks with an honesty that will not accept the glib comfort of pretense....[She] suggests again and again, with rage, regret, humor, irony and anger: This is what it takes to be alive."
-Scudder Parker, poet and author of
Safe as Lightning
"Indignant of social injustices, she deconstructs the makeup of contemporary life, giving a thundering voice to the voiceless."
-Tonia Leon, bilingual poet and translator, author of
My Beloved Chaos