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Enid Shomer’s book of poems, Shoreless, is now available from Persea Books! Purchase here. “Enid Shomer’s heroic new collection is ringed by the vast, floating horizon of each moment—and, closer in, the depths: memory, love, loss, solitude. With formal grace and moral agility, these poems chart our transformations by art and heart.” - Donald Morrill |
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.
“Shoreless shows all the strengths of Enid Shomer’s earlier poems, plus more. Lyrical and clear, with a strong narrative thrust—every poem’s a story—she joins the ranks of Robert Penn Warren and Joyce Carol Oates, equally at home in both fiction and poetry.” —Peter Meinke
“Deft and undaunted, Enid Shomer’s Shoreless is sure-footed in its ironies, even as it carries us through the uncertainties of life and death, love and loss. In beautiful, sly poems, Shomer lays before us ‘piazzas / of darkness and light’ as she raises for us complex ethical questions. Everywhere in this gorgeous book, her gargantuan talents are in play.” —Michelle Boisseau
“Lyric insistence shines through these poems, with their adamant celebrations of ibis and plover, music and love, all in the face of such bereavement. These brave poems mourn but never founder. ‘The waves roll / into sacred scrolls that hold up / the world,’ the poet observes. She is our bearing of witness.” —Robert Gibb
“Shoreless shows all the strengths of Enid Shomer’s earlier poems, plus more. Lyrical and clear, with a strong narrative thrust—every poem’s a story—she joins the ranks of Robert Penn Warren and Joyce Carol Oates, equally at home in both fiction and poetry.” —Peter Meinke
“Deft and undaunted, Enid Shomer’s Shoreless is sure-footed in its ironies, even as it carries us through the uncertainties of life and death, love and loss. In beautiful, sly poems, Shomer lays before us ‘piazzas / of darkness and light’ as she raises for us complex ethical questions. Everywhere in this gorgeous book, her gargantuan talents are in play.” —Michelle Boisseau
“Lyric insistence shines through these poems, with their adamant celebrations of ibis and plover, music and love, all in the face of such bereavement. These brave poems mourn but never founder. ‘The waves roll / into sacred scrolls that hold up / the world,’ the poet observes. She is our bearing of witness.” —Robert Gibb