Alphabet of a Nomad by Sally-Ann Hard

This is poetry of longing and hope despite the evidence. Not autobiographical so much as spiritual. Physical landscapes, psychological landscapes. Sally Ann Hard makes poems of intelligence and vision – not one or the other. Her book constitutes a walkabout through countries and written alphabets one nomad encountered in a hard won effort to learn what the tulip knows: the grace of continuing past winter.

–Ron Price, author of A Small Song Called Ash from the Fire and A True Account of the Failure of Bodies to Adequately Burn

Rating: [5 of 5 Stars!]

In this collection of poems Sally-Ann Hard gives the reader a transcultural, polyvocal voice through the prism of nature and nurture. From “the Saharan stars” to the “ash on Lenox” to the “weathered vertebrae” in Provincetown, the poet provides a marriage of language and images that invites cross-pollination; hence, the nomad. There is an innate beautiful echo in Alphabet of a Nomad that rings within the bones. It rings of epiphany and intellect. I have fallen in love with the alphabet all over again. Nomadically yours,

–Randall Horton is the author of Pitch Dark Anarchy

Rating: [5 of 5 Stars!]