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Shoreless
(Persea Books, 2020) In Shoreless, Enid Shomer continues to explore her passionate relationship with the Florida landscape, the inextricable web of family, and the challenges of the body. Elegant and inventive, these poems broach eternal themes with the wisdom that age confers. Deftly employing the language of science and of Eros, Shomer uncovers exquisite truths of pain and pleasure. Learn more about the book here! All We Know of Pleasure: Poetic Erotica by Women (Blair Publishing, 2019) “A groundbreaking anthology of well-known female poets that broadens traditional notions of erotic poetry." Learn more about the book here! The Twelve Rooms of the Nile (Simon and Schuster, 2012) Enid Shomer's debut novel, in which Florence Nightingale and Gustave Flaubert, both travelling in Egypt in 1849, form a deep friendship, marked by intelligence, humor, and a ravishing tenderness, that alters their destinies in the early days of the European exploration of the Nile. —from Lippincott Massie McQuilkin |
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Tourist Season
(Random House, March 2007) "Beautifully made, surprising and inevitable, wonderfully inventive and deeply true" —Pam Houston Learn more about the book here! |
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Stars at Noon: Poems from the Life of Jacqueline Cochran
(University of Arkansas Press, 2001) Poems that give voice to the mercurial, dazzling woman who first broke the sound barrier. |
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Black Drum
(University of Arkansas Press, 1997) "A stunning collection that adroitly mixes the sacred and the profane, the classical and casual."—Booklist |
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Imaginary Men
(University of Iowa Press, 1993) "Remarkable insights into tradition and family, love and sex... This is a splendid fictional debut."—Robert Olen Butler |
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This Close to the Earth
(University of Arkansas Press, 1992) Moving through the cycle of birth, growth, and death, the poems of Enid Shomer are informed by physical knowledge, transforming it into rare and often startling insight. |
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Stalking the Florida Panther
(The Word Works, 1987) "In this fine first book the eternal themes of love, loss, unrequital, and forgiveness come together with the characters to form a remarkably unified whole."—Maxine Kumin |