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Books by Sheryl St Germain






The Small Door of Your Death(1st Edition)
by Sheryl St. Germain
Paperback, 104 Pages, Published 2018 by Autumn House
ISBN-13: 978-1-938769-27-6, ISBN: 1-938769-27-9

"This honest and haunting collection of poems follows the loss of the poet’s only son to heroin addiction. St. Germain takes us through the stages of her grief and offers no false promises or simple answers. These narrative-driven poems are a compelling and compassionate look into addiction and the effect it has on a family."






Let it be a Dark Roux(1st Edition)
New and Selected Poems
by Sheryl St. Germain
Paperback, 152 Pages, Published 2007 by Autumn House
ISBN-13: 978-1-932870-16-9, ISBN: 1-932870-16-4

"Winner of the Louisiana Writer Award (2018) In this retrospective collection, Sheryl St. Germain sings of her New Orleans upbringing, the Cajun/Creole culture, and the struggles of being a woman in a decaying culture."






Between Song and Story(1st Edition)
Essays from the Twenty-First Century
by Sheryl St. Germain, Professor Margaret Whitford, Margaret L. Whitford, Autumn House
Paperback, 400 Pages, Published 2011 by Autumn House Press
ISBN-13: 978-1-932870-50-3, ISBN: 1-932870-50-4

"Forty-six writers explore the range of the contemporary essay: Dorothy Allison, Jimmy Santiago Baca, John Biguenet, Tom Bissell, Greg Bottoms, Joy Castro, Toi Derricotte, Brian Doyle, Gretel Ehrlich, Jane Fishman, Melanie Dylan Fox, David Gessner, Derek Green, John Haines, Linda Hogan, Barbara Hurd, Robert Isenberg, Lori Jakiela, Jamaica Kincaid, Elizabeth Kirschner, Amanda Leskovac, Phillip Lopate, BK Loren, Jo McDougall, Debra Marquar ..."






50 Miles
by Sheryl St. Germain
Paperback, 198 Pages, Published 2020 by Etruscan Press
ISBN-13: 978-0-9997534-4-6, ISBN: 0-9997534-4-4

"Fifty Miles is a memoir in linked essays that addresses addiction and alcoholism. The book traces the life and death of the author’s son, Gray, a talented but troubled young man, to a drug overdose at thirty, as well as the author’s own recovery from substance abuse."






How Heavy the Breath of God(1st Edition)
(Texas Poets, No 5)
by Sheryl St. Germain
Paperback, 66 Pages, Published 1994 by University Of North Texas Press
ISBN-13: 978-0-929398-68-6, ISBN: 0-929398-68-8

"These poems celebrate and consecrate the physical world, moving from exotic to familiar locations, from the jungles of Ecuador and Mayan ruins in Central America to the rural lands and flooding creeks of Texas."






Navigating Disaster(1st Edition)
Sixteen Essays of Love and a Poem of Despair
by Sheryl St. Germain
Paperback, 148 Pages, Published 2012 by Louisiana Literature Press
ISBN-13: 978-0-945083-34-4, ISBN: 0-945083-34-3

"Sheryl St. Germain's Navigating Disaster: Sixteen Essays of Love and a Poem of Despair. Page by page in the collection, St. Germain's writing illustrates the strength and resiliency of the human spirit. Whether examining the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina, the struggles of raising a child who s battling chemical dependency, or the search for voice in art, Sheryl St. Germain faces life with extraordinary honesty and an unrelenting drive ..."






Words without Walls
Writers on Addiction, Violence, and Incarceration
by Sheryl St. Germain, Sarah Shotland, Trinity University Press
Paperback, 288 Pages, Published 2015 by Trinity University Press
ISBN-13: 978-1-59534-255-3, ISBN: 1-59534-255-9

"Writing programs in prisons and rehabilitation centers have proven time and again to be transformative and empowering for people in need. Halfway houses, hospitals, and shelters are all fertile ground for healing through the imagination and can often mean the difference for inmates and patients between just simply surviving and truly thriving. It is in these settings that teachers and their students need reading that nourishes the soul ..."






The Journals of Scheherazade(1st Edition)
by Sheryl St. Germain
Paperback, 78 Pages, Published 1996 by University Of North Texas Press
ISBN-13: 978-1-57441-010-5, ISBN: 1-57441-010-5

"In this collection of poetry the author finds, in the character of Scheherazade, a metaphor for what it means to write. The voices of these poems are deeply female, whether they be those of daughters, lovers or mothers; they remind us that the difficult truths of the imagination are rooted in the body. Here are poems that find love and redemption in darkness, intelligence and emotion in the erotic."






Vinegar and Char
Verse from the Southern Foodways Alliance
by Sandra Beasley, Julie Sola, Natasha Trethewey, Kevin Young, Shirlette Ammons, Michael Mcfee, Elisa Albo, Elizabeth Alexander, Richard Blanco, Devon Brenner, Gaylord Brewer, Jericho Brown, Nickole Brown, Gabrielle Calvocoressi, Wo Chan, Beth Fennelly, Nikky Finney, Vievee Francis, Diane Gilliam, Nikki Giovanni, Elton Glaser, Sean Hill, Jay Hopler, John T. Edge, Tj Jarrett, W. Ralph Eubanks, Frank X. Walker, Rebecca Gayle Howell, Jake Adam York, Molly Mccully Brown, Greg Alan Brownderville, Melissa Dickson Jackson, Kelly Norman Ellis, Honorée Fanonne Jeffers, Ashley Jones, Georgia Ella Lyon, Ed Madden, Jo Mcdougall, Rose Mclarney, Erika Meitner, Robert Morgan, Jon Pineda, Iain Haley Pollock, Lynn Powell, Artsuro Riley, Iliana Rocha, Natalie Scenters-Zepico, Brian Spears, Sheryl St. Germain, Garland Strother, Adrienne Su, Jon Tribble, Adam Vines, Caroline Randall Williams, L. Lamar Wilson, Sylvia Woods, Marianne Worthington, Naomi Shihab Nye, Frank Walker, Blair Hobbs, Regina Bradley
Paperback, 128 Pages, Published 2018 by University Of Georgia Press
ISBN-13: 978-0-8203-5429-3, ISBN: 0-8203-5429-5

"Yes, there is barbecue, but that’s just one course of the meal. With Vinegar and Char the Southern Foodways Alliance celebrates twenty years of symposia by offering a collection of poems that are by turns as sophisticated and complex, as vivid and funny, and as buoyant and poignant as any SFA gathering.The roster of contributors includes Natasha Trethewey, Robert Morgan, Atsuro Riley, Adrienne Su, Richard Blanco, Ed Madden, Nikky Finney ..."






Swamp Songs(1st Edition)
by Sheryl St.Germain
Hardcover, 228 Pages, Published 2003 by University Of Utah Press
ISBN-13: 978-0-87480-743-1, ISBN: 0-87480-743-3

"New Orleans native St. Germain (English, Iowa State U.) shares personal essays about her hometown and the surrounding swampland, and losses in her own life and community. She incorporates what she sees as aspects of the Deep South the power of water, a love of the sensuous, a sense of the dramatic, dysfunctional family life, and having "a highly evolved sense of tragedy and, out of a need for survival, humor." Some of the essays appeare ..."






How Heavy the Breath of God
(TEXAS POETS SERIES)
by Sheryl St. Germain
Hardcover, 66 Pages, Published 1994 by University Of North Texas Press
ISBN-13: 978-0-929398-72-3, ISBN: 0-929398-72-6

"These poems celebrate and consecrate the physical world, moving from exotic to familiar locations, from the jungles of Ecuador and Mayan ruins in Central America to the rural lands and flooding creeks of Texas."






Making Bread at Midnight(2nd Edition)
by Sheryl St Germain
Paperback, 100 Pages, Published 1992 by Slough Pr
ISBN-13: 978-0-941720-87-8, ISBN: 0-941720-87-X

"Book by St Germain, Sheryl"






Going Home
(Perivale Poetry Chapbooks, Number 3)
by Sheryl St. Germain
Paperback, 19 Pages, Published 1989 by Perivale Press
ISBN-13: 978-0-912288-29-1, ISBN: 0-912288-29-9






Review Women Writers Chapbook Ser.
Mask of Madusa
by Sheryl St. Germain, Janet . Morgan
Paperback, 48 Pages, Published 1989 by Cross-Cultural Communications
ISBN-13: 978-0-89304-431-2, ISBN: 0-89304-431-8






The mask of Medusa
(Women writers chapbook)
by Sheryl St. Germain, Janet . Morgan, Maria Mazziotti Gillan
Paperback, 48 Pages, Published 1989 by Cross-Cultural Communications
ISBN-13: 978-0-89304-433-6, ISBN: 0-89304-433-4






The Mask of Medusa
(Women Writers Chapbook)
by Sheryl St. Germain
Hardcover, 48 Pages, Published 1987 by Cross-Cultural Communications
ISBN-13: 978-0-89304-430-5, ISBN: 0-89304-430-X






Review Women Writers Chapbook Ser.
Mask of Madusa : Mini
by Sheryl St. Germain
Published 1987
ISBN-13: 978-0-89304-432-9, ISBN: 0-89304-432-6






Metamorphoses
Poems by Sheryl St. Germain, Art by Janet Morgan (Paperback)
by St. Germain, Sheryl, Morgan, Janet
80 Pages, Published 2020 by Art And Adventures
ISBN-13: 978-1-73470-291-0, ISBN: 1-73470-291-5






Presence a Journal of Catholic Poetry 2021
by Jeannine M. Pitas, Joseph A. Brown, Luke Brown, Barbara Crooker, Dante Di Stefano, Linda Nemec Foster, Mary Ladany, Kelly Russell Agodon, Sarah Allen, Lisa Ampleman, Matthew J. Andrews, Devon Balwit, Lisa Breger, Ronda Piszk Broatch, Mary Buchinger, Justin Carisio, Katy Carl, Sean M. Conrey, Robert Cording, Sarah Cortez, Zach Czaia, Cortney Davis, John F. Deane, C. X. Dillhunt, Lynn Domina, Christina Ellsberg, C. J. Giroux, George Guida, Maryanne Hannan, Marc Harshman, Matthew E. Henry, Lou Ella Hickman, John Hodgen, Kristen Kinnell, Leonard Kress, Gerry Lafemina, K. T. Landon, Sheree Lapuma, Sue Fagalde Lick, James Littwin, V. P. Loggins, Jimmy Long, Dan Macisaac, Annita Costa Malufe, John Martone, Jane Mccafferty, Megan Mcdermott, Theresa Monteiro, Ann Neelon, Colin Pope, Nicholas Samaras, Julia Samorodova, J. D. Shraffenberger, Martha Silano, Katherine Smith, Maria Terrone, David Thoreen, Daniel Tobin, Cindy Veach, Shanna Powlus Wheeler, James Matthew Wilson, Madeleine Mysko, Carol Park, Ned Balbo, Kevin Brown, Sheryl St. Germain, Marion Goldstein, Donna Dzurilla, William Coleman, Janet Mccann, Isak Bond, Jessica Hooten Wilson, Wendy Galgan, Mia Schilling Grogan, Janna Schledorn, Julie L. Moore, Carole Stone, Laura Hogan, Alan Berecka, Janine Molinaro Bayer, Owen Lewis
Published 2021
ISBN-13: 978-0-9988095-2-6, ISBN: 0-9988095-2-7

"A journal of Catholic poetry and book reviews for a general readership."






Presence
a Journal of Catholic Poetry
by Chelsea Martinez-Casiano, Sharif Elmusa, P. S. Dean, Pablo Medina, Maryann Corbett, Gail White, James Matthew Wilson, Susan L. Miller, Julie L. Moore, Joseph Bathanti, Jill Pelaez Baumgaertner, Alan Berecka, Tim Bete, Kathleen Bradley, Pat Brisson, Debra Bruce, Mary Buchinger, Roxana L. Cazan, Yuan Changming, Erica Charis-Molling, Richard Cole, Barbara Crooker, Joanna Currey, Jim Daniels, Lynn Domina, Stephen Gibson, Dominic Gideon, Maria Mazziotti Gillan, Ed Granger, Maryanne Hannan, Jerry Harp, Lois Marie Harrod, Anne M. Higgins, Thomas Holahan, Siham Karami, Elaine Kehoe, George Klawitter, Dean Kostos, Leonard Kress, Michael Angel Martin, D. S. Martin, Orlando Ricardo Menes, Philip Metres, Rhonda Miska, Robin Amelia Morris, Susan Signe Morrison, Elizabeth Murawski, Stella Nesanovich, Matthew C. Nickel, Barry Peters, Daye Phillippo, Mia Pohlman, Christopher Poore, Dennis Rhodes, Michael D. Riley, Margaret Rozga, Lisa Toth Salinas, Nicholas Samaras, Janna Schledorn, Rita A. Simmonds, Richard Spilman, Sofia M. Starnes, Sheryl St. Germain, Sophia Stid, Carole Stone, Maxine Susman, Maria Terrone, Brian Volck, Mark C. Watney, R. Bratten Weiss, Paul Willis, Aleisa Zoecklin, Cydnee Devereaux, Jake Oresick, Michael P. Murphy, Ned Balbo, C. X. Dillhunt, Mary Ladany, Mike Aquilina, Juditha Dowd, Shanna Powlus Wheeler, Jeremiah Webster, Tyler Farrell, Mia Schilling Grogan, Kim Bridgford, Joshua Hren, Kathleen Marks
Published 2018
ISBN-13: 978-0-9988095-1-9, ISBN: 0-9988095-1-9

"New poems, translations, interviews, and book reviews in a yearly literary journal for Catholic Poetry."



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