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The Universe with Borscht
Paperback
ISBN13: 9781639809851
Publisher: Kelsay Books
Published: Sep 15 2025
Pages: 122
Weight: 0.38
Height: 0.26 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English
Sanders' eye is sharp and unerring, her lyric voice full of musicality. The images in The Universe with Borscht leap off the page, and sizzle with life and buoyant energy. Her poetic landscape is visceral, tactile, and intensely felt, yet it's the effervescent wit and humor here that will win you over. This is a book you will want to keep with you as a reminder that there can be joy amid disillusion, and poetry is the elixir that, as Sanders writes, can fix the broken world / that keeps on breaking.
-Robert Walicki, author, Fountain and Watershed
Each poem in The Universe with Borscht is its own universe. Sanders' details are so vividly drawn that they seem to blink back at you. Even her darkest poems are utterly delicious. She invites us to cruise through daily miracles, concerning herself with the mundane embedded in sublime and/or vice versa so consistently that it has become her trademark. Oh, and she is dang funny, too. Underlying this collection is the acknowledgment that being conscious can bring experiences of both pain and beauty, exquisite agonies that can be contained only - and then only just - by poetry.
-M. C. Benner Dixon, author, The Height of Land and co-author, Millions of Suns: On Writing and Life
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