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In Winter Sharp with Apples, Annette Sisson's poetic gifts are on full display. Her language is crisp and clean-a readability that's instructive, a readability rich with emotional and intellectual pleasures. I often found myself delighted by a line or an image, then felt myself pulled into a nexus of thinking and feeling. Her language is layered, resonant. Her gaze is attentive to the natural world and family. But she knows that the natural world has cycles; time will diminish flesh and bonds. Her poems summon forth the intimacies that illuminate, that shape our lives. Sisson is a marvelous poet. Her poems-deftly built, deeply felt-remind us love is what endures.
-Eduardo C. Corral, Guillotine (2020)
About the author
Annette Sisson is the author of Small Fish in High Branches, published by Glass Lyre (2022). Her poems have been published in Valparaiso Poetry Review, Birmingham Poetry Review, Rust & Moth, Lascaux Review, and elsewhere. She won The Porch Writers Collective's 2019 Poetry Prize. She is Professor of English at Belmont University and lives in Nashville, Tennessee.
