About Me
- Sheryl St. Germain
- Pittsburgh, Pennsvlvania, United States
- Sheryl St. Germain's most recent book of poetry is Let it Be Dark Roux: New and Selected Poems from Autumn House Press. She has also published a memoir about growing up in Louisiana called Swamp Songs: the Making of an Unruly Woman, University of Utah Press. She was born and raised in New Orleans and currently directs the MFA program at Chatham University where she teaches both poetry and creative nonfiction. She is married to the Dutch photographer Teake Zuidema (www.teakezuidema.com) , and has one son, Gray, who lives in Denton, Texas. See more at www.sherylstgemain.com
this is powerful to read, more so since i am in the middle of Swamp Song. it is hard to watch our loved ones, be they fathers, brothers, or sons, live with the painful consequences of their choices. there is such a pull, as their daughter, sister or mother, to scoop them up and somehow make it all better. Maybe especially as their mother, since it is what we have done for them for so long.
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