The Sweet Taste of Lightning

by Sheri-D Wilson

Canada's foremost action poet Sheri-D Wilson returns with The Sweet Taste of Lightning , a sublime new collection of poems that explore love and mortality with her distinct jazz-inflected sensibility.... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1551520605
• ISBN13: 9781551520605
• Release Date: July 2002
• Publisher: Arsenal Pulp Press
• Length: 119 Pages
• Weight: 0.48 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.4" x 6.0" x 9.0"

Customer Reviews

The Hilarity Which Comes with Wisdom

Sheri-D Wilson's latest book of poetry came out in 1998. This is a book of "preformance poetry" with many, many different layers. Like an onion. Teeming with urbanity of the every day mysticism of life--one moment you'll be howling at her clever play of words, the next, you'll be gasping at her sudden fatalism. It's this fatalism which has slowly been creeping into Wilson's works which show her transgression and maturation as an artist. This book is not afraid to illuminate pain in the action of the now. It is one of her more down to earth books......(compare with Swerve), and it is not one or two continual preformance pieces like I personally perfer, but it is filled with genius pieces of funky poetry--the care, thought and reserch is evident in each one. She makes action poetry look effortless. On the stage, as well as in this book. Recommended to those with a desire to connect poetry with the real world, and in turn,their own real world, with the inner world of the true poet's heart.