winner of the national poetry series award
mixed-media, polylingual explorations of the lyric
Meredith Stricker's TENDERNESS SHORE is a passionate and luminous collection of poetry that explores the iconography of the Muse through a series of exchanges with Sappho - Plato's tenth muse - in letters, shopping lists, postcards, choreography and maps – delving into the landscape of Lesbos. The collection encounters a chorus of muses: Sappho, Camus, Piaf, and birds speaking in Hungarian.
"Elegant, original and provocative”
– Fred Chappell, judge for the National Poetry Series Award