Shoulders Holding Back Night is the third volume of poems by Sandra S. Wayne. This collection shares with the first two the softer aspects of Sandra's world. She loved nature, creatures, family, gentle folk, art, travel, places and events - and that fondness threads throughout this work. So does her humor and sharp eye for a telling detail. Shoulders Holding Back Night differs in two particular ways: she looks more often and deeper into loneliness, desire, despair, and self-examination; and she addresses war, past and present. The latter experience came to her through her husband's military career and through their involvement in Civil War re-enactment. All Sandra's poems taken together reveal the views and heart of a woman who reveled in life and continuance. They are all of the world, real, as she saw it and recorded it, honestly and heartily. The poems in Shoulders Holding Back Night can be savored in pieces or as a collection; they are timeless and relatable.
Shoulders Holding Back Night is the third volume of poems by Sandra S. Wayne. This collection shares with the first two the softer aspects of Sandra's world. She loved nature, creatures, family, gentle folk, art, travel, places and events - and that fondness threads throughout this work. So does her humor and sharp eye for a telling detail. Shoulders Holding Back Night differs in two particular ways: she looks more often and deeper into loneliness, desire, despair, and self-examination; and she addresses war, past and present. The latter experience came to her through her husband's military career and through their involvement in Civil War re-enactment. All Sandra's poems taken together reveal the views and heart of a woman who reveled in life and continuance. They are all of the world, real, as she saw it and recorded it, honestly and heartily. The poems in Shoulders Holding Back Night can be savored in pieces or as a collection; they are timeless and relatable.
