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The Sinew of Forty Seven Years
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Sarah Sandman is a writing teacher at Indiana University Purdue University Fort Wayne where she teaches all kinds of creative writing. Her favorite class to teach is poetry, and she loves talking about Allen Ginsberg's Howl. When she's not reading student work, she writes poetry and creative nonfiction. She also enjoys hiking and drinking too much coffee. She's often seen with children near her, and she will never turn away the chance to pet a dog. Sarah's chapbook, I Speak Moan, was published by Finishing Line Press. Right now, she's working on a book length collection of essays. She is also the editor of The Dandelion Review. She lives in Fort Wayne with the love of her life.

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In The Sinew of Forty Seven Years Sarah Sandman reaches into her readers' bodies and grabs hold, never letting go. Sandman is a writer who doesn't flinch and in her steady gaze, readers will find darkness illuminated with such gifted poetry it is bearable. In this writing-always rich, evocative, generous, fierce-we learn to navigate our worst fears and catch hold of the glimmers that light the way to our own comfort. Sandman's voice is fresh, her language fresh, her topics important. Don't miss this collection. Anna March, author of The Diary of Suzanne Frank, and Feminist Killjoy Sarah Sandman's poetry gives voice to a silent scream written in the sky with a toenail. Its essence demands more than simply to endure pain. Her sentences have tall ambitions: unspoken, forgotten traumas and as much permission to her anger as a rib is permitted to rise in breath. The Sinew of 47 Years is the lost sister of Claudia Rankine's Citizen and a companion to xTx's Today I am a Book because it similarly empties out the places where violence has come to play and provides another fertile landscape where wit, wisdom and sensuousness stay. Antonia Crane, author of the memoir Spent

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