Sheetstone - from SD

	Fiction Non-Fiction Poetry Film Art MEB Authors Events Distribution Booksense Contacts	Sheetstone by Susan Blanshard ISBN 1-933132-12-4 $13.00 US \| $15.95 CAN 176 pages Find the book on Amazon> This unusual poetry-memoir is a “magic whip” for passion, remembrance, healing songs of bitterness, and witty irony. Love and death on the same bed, or powerful imageries of visceral pain and tenderness are put together with feeling and intelligence. Like “the seed in the core” Blanshard’s poetry resides inside her ineffable heart and comes out in original, sensitive, beautiful tones and words. Carmen Firan Blanshard’s mystical booklength poem, Sheet Stone is an erotic journey into a spirtiual realm, where narrative, language, and emotion are tender and fractured. The reader follows the slopes of these bodies, and finally acknowledges that, yes, our sexual experience is part of the divine. Barbara Henning

This unusual poetry-memoir is a “magic whip” for passion, remembrance,
healing songs of bitterness, and witty irony. Love and death on the same bed,
or powerful imageries of visceral pain and tenderness are put together with
feeling and intelligence. Like “the seed in the core” Blanshard’s poetry resides
inside her ineffable heart and comes out in original, sensitive, beautiful
tones and words. Carmen Firan

Blanshard’s mystical booklength poem, Sheet Stone is an erotic journey into
a spirtiual realm, where narrative, language, and emotion are tender and fractured.
The reader follows the slopes of these bodies, and finally acknowledges that,
yes, our sexual experience is part of the divine. Barbara Henning