Poetry. Drawing on her residence in New Orleans, Los Angeles, and New York, Sharon Olinka writes of love and love's despair, love's many masks, and her own struggle to find her identity. She also draws on her travels to Bali and Australia and her survival of a serious illness to create a startling series of rituals designed to purify life to its essentials. Beginning in rebellion, the book finally records a struggle for sexual, personal, and physical survival.
Sarah Fox is the publisher of Fuori Editions and teaches poetry and creative writing in schools and literary centers throughout Minnesota. She has received a Minnesota State Arts Board grant and fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts and the Bush Foundation. Poems from this collection have appeared in Bloomsbury Review, Jacket, jubilat, Verse, and elsewhere.