Sibilance

“Tactile, luminous, and original in voice, Sally Van Doren’s Sibilance is a journey of the body and its elusive ache and the shape of living in the name of life itself.” ~Rachel Eliza Griffiths

“Van Doren transports us from the inside of our own bodies to the cosmos in a single line and renders even the banalities of life with an imagery that gains in power, pulling the poems of this collection into one ecstatic dance.” ~Emma Sheanshang

“Van Doren’s trim and brisk poems display a thrilling diction at every turn. She applies wit and acuity equally to both exultation and elegy.” ~Chanda Feldman

“Sibilance is a beautiful, propulsive excavation and magnification of life’s transitions. At times heart-wrenching, Van Doren’s voice is piercingly anatomical, yanking us deeper into a synesthetic understanding of colors as emotions, trees as companions, bodies as maps.” ~Phyllis Grant

“I’ve seen blurbs using the word ‘luminous’ before. But that word for those collections fell short of the mark. They were not ‘Luminous.’ But it certainly is on the money when used for describing Sibilance. This is an unexpected pleasure. Van Doren’s work is wonderful. I love this book.” ~South Florida Poetry Journal