Betsy Sholl’s masterful, musical seventh collection focuses on human dichotomies: body and soul, mystery and knowledge, grief and ecstasy. Though the self is small in relation to death, love is enormo
Winner of the 2014 Four Lakes Poetry Prize These poems enact the kinds of arguments we have with ourselves?between control and relinquishment, grief and ecstasy, regret and acceptance, faith and skept
The bluesy, rich, and vital poems in House of Sparrows look for grace and beauty not outside of the suffering world but within it. Betsy Sholl explores the shifting ironies and contradictions in the s
