Golden, Sierra: The Slow Art

The Slow Art by Sierra Golden (Bear Star Press, paperback) Publication Date: September 1, 2018 Publisher Marketing: Poetry. "The poems in THE SLOW ART are boiled down to unflinching essentials. Golden refuses to hide behind the easy fires and maximal adornment of so much contemporary poetry, giving us a rough-edged vision that drifts out into a world of machinery, work, and family. The art here is that the poems drift inward, too—to the landscape of the self where time, language, and experience become a tangle of the brutal, the mysterious, the essential, and the celebrated. And I celebrate this book whose heart contains the world and those who work it 'for her, for him, for them, for me, for you.'"—Michael McGriff