The Book of Sensations
Description
The Book of Sensations by Sheri-D Wilson embodies an intricate ecosystem of language and feeling. These poems reach their roots down into the depths of what it means to be-to connect to one another, and to connect to the earth. With fine-tuned vocabulary, far-reaching observation, and the dream-vision of the surrealist eye, Sheri-D delves into the personal and the universal, the everyday and the mythical. This book is full of poignant sensations and astonishing realizations. This is a book of life and experience. Put it in your pocket and immerse yourself in a world of sensations.
Reviews
Sheri-D Wilson turns language on its head, exuberantly coining new words that seem absolutely necessary-like arborolatry (a great word for idolizing trees). Her mastery of sound is hypnotic.
- Kerry Clare, 49th Shelf
Emily Ursuliak's Throwing the Diamond Hitch offers an insightful and endearing literary testament of Phyllis and Anne's 1951 trip from the west coast to the Rockies and back again. The story ties together many seeming dichotomies: the mixture of poetry and prose, the factual accounts from the journal and literary interpretations, third person omniscience and first person accounts, and the triumph of Anne and Phyllis' individuality and the connection to the community they discover. This omnipresent layering leaves you longing to return to the story to unweave that hitch, but it is this literary knot that makes the work so intriguing in the first place.
- Logan Pollon, Freefall Magazine
Sheri-D Wilson's The Book of Sensations is as much, or moreso, about language as it is about Sensations… In many of the pieces, it's difficult not to give an oral rendering, and I found myself getting caught in my own word play, taking her logo-vein and lengthening it, then being pulled back to her artery - an interesting combination of writer and reader's voice I have a feeling this was intentional. ... Wilson is clearly a reader who loves the taste and feel of words on her tongue as they rumble in her mouth, and bounce on the tympanum of the ear.
- Beth Everest, Freefall Magazine