Book Review: Open Letter

open letter

Open Letter: Woman Against Violence Against Women, Sheri D-Wilson, Frontenac House Poetry, frontenachouse.com, 104 pgs, $15.95

“This,
The Black Book of Unopened Letters
Is addressed to all people –“

This is the mantra that starts off Sheri-D’s latest collection of poetry. With an arsenal of eight poetry books under her belt, her latest, Open Letter: Woman Against Violence Against Women, is a biting work. It presents healing, history, defense lessons, and consolation without shying away from the discernible anger that drives the project.

Not one to shy away from experimentation, Wilson frees up sonnets by breaking them into minimalistic imagery. Alternately, she constrains free forms into her own molds, making the female voice a transformative one. The texts were conceived through improvisational performance, giving her words a flair for the dramatic, yet tempering them with supporting research: the Montreal massacre, the ideology behind historical witch hunts, Celtic matriarchal mythologies, and starkly personal accounts from the poet’s life as well.

Violence threads these pages together, and when read out loud, they become a modern feminist revision of the beat aesthetic. A refreshing read, this collage is a reparative and educational companion. (Jacqueline Valencia)

5 thoughts on “Book Review: Open Letter

  1. Aw, this was an exceptionally good post. Finding the time and actual effort to generate a
    great article_ but what can I say_ I
    put things off a lot and never seem to get anything done.

  2. Hey this is kinda of off topic but I was wanting to know
    if blogs use WYSIWYG editors or if you have to manually code with HTML.
    I’m starting a blog soon but have no coding skills so I wanted to get guidance from someone with
    experience. Any help would be enormously appreciated!

  3. One of the agreement castle clash hack are confidential. Mobile gaming industry, increase their income.
    The main character called Jack runs forward automatically and eventually you
    will find so many websites which have made its access more prominent.

  4. The types that are available are numerous and you can choose your pick from the ones that range from
    hand press models to ones that are electrically operated.
    A good majority move down from the cold up north to our beautiful, white sandy beaches.
    In a new media driven world, people rely on search, their friends on social networks, and other online
    media channels to hear about things happening in the digital world.

Comments are closed.