Before the Light Slides By

Before the Light Slides By brings together the poems of an artist with a lifelong eye for nature. Sarah Seabury Ward shares her first collection of poems at the age of 87. Her challenges with dyslexia have made reading, writing, and linear processing difficult, but the natural world offers a language that speaks to her. As an educator, sculptor, and poet, her worlds come together in these poems. She brings the reader into the natural world through poetry. This book is available to purchase at Jabberwocky Bookshop.

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Praise for Before the Light Slides By

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"My wish is to see what I cannot," Sarah Seabury Ward writes in her poem, "Dusk." But that is exactly what she does in these poems. She sees beyond sight, sometimes beyond human language.

- Ruth Rudner, author of Ask Now the Beasts and A Chorus of Buffalo

 

This beautiful book is an affirmation of life, especially its wildernesses, including those inside us. Sarah loves best those things we are given that remain untamed, forever beyond our control.

- Alfred Nicol, author of After the Carnival and Animal Psalms

 

Sarah Seabury Ward seems to see, feel, and commune with nature as if it spoke to her - described itself to her - from its own awareness and vocabulary, through both human language and delicate lines on paper.

- Rhina P. Espaillat, author of And After All and The Field