Millie Collins, Your Barn is Gone - by Sherri Felt Dratfield (Paperback)
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<p/><br></br><p><b> About the Book </b></p></br></br><p>Sherri Felt Dratfield's new collection <em>Millie Collins, Your Barn Is Gone</em> explores change, loss, healing and renewal. Its sections correspond to Ecclesiastes' "to everything there is a season..." </p><p/><br></br><p><b> Book Synopsis </b></p></br></br><p>Sherri Felt Dratfield's new collection <em>Millie Collins, Your Barn Is Gone</em> explores change, loss, healing and renewal. Its sections correspond to Ecclesiastes' "to everything there is a season..." The poems take us from Venice, Italy to the seashore to the cafes of New York City; from learning a vaudeville song with Jimmy Durante to engaging the Madona in a Bellini Triptych to examining the divinity of an egg. </p><p/><br></br><p><b> Review Quotes </b></p></br></br><br><p>Sherri Felt Dratfield goes from strength to strength in this, her third book of poems. Gazing on minute details, she finds miracles in ordinary life, whether on city streets, on the shore, in her beloved Venice, or in her childhood. She writes joyfully of the woman on a dune, Murano leaves, a remembered song. And yet, devoted as she is to earthly realities, an underlying mysticism pervades this collection. Reading it, we are taken far beyond and under and above the world she captures in words to a place where only silence prevails. This is the remarkable effect of </p><p>"Two O'Clock Bells," in which she watches the Campanile and hears, "three bells in unison./ I saw sound and felt life echo - /brief, gone."</p><p><strong>-Grace Schulman, Winner of the Frost Medal for Distinguished Lifetime Achievement in American Poetry and Member of the American Academy of Arts and Letters</strong></p><p><br></p><p>The exquisite poems in Sherri Felt Dratfield's brilliant, luminous <em>Millie Collins, Your Barn Is Gone</em> draw on mythology and geography to explore themes of identity, memory, love, and loss. At once spiritual, intimate and worldly, they weave a rich tapestry of alchemical music. Inhabited by recurring angels, bristling with flurries of animals and a cornucopia of flowers, this collection is a feast for all the senses and a testimony to the redeeming power of beauty.To read Felt Dratfield is to be edified and entranced. She takes us down the rabbit hole in the magical "Arboreal," one of several stunning ekphrastic poems. Her timeless, exacting poetry lavishes us with blessings that "course veinlike through [our] hearts" and like "stronger tides forge fiercer bonds." </p><p><strong>-Hélène Cardona, Independent Press Award and International Book Award Winner</strong></p><br>
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