Sunday Mornings at the Caffe Mediterraneum

By Wendy Sloan

Wry and witty, shrewd but also poignant, the poems in Sunday Mornings at the Caffe Mediterraneum, which range through both public and private history, are rich with detail and firmly anchored in experience. Inflected by loss and regret, the poems are nevertheless buttressed by Wendy Sloan's mastery of meter and rhyme and by her confident and contagious delight in the sonnet. With honesty and courage, Sloan's poetry guides us through vistas that can be lonely and dark but that are burnished by her craft and humanity. In addition, her accomplished translations spice this collection with variety while maintaining and extending its bittersweet tone. Rachel Hadas Wendy Sloan's poems move from worldly to otherworldly and back again, in an instant. Her songs of what we do for love and family-and what the world may do-resonate and move. Her translations retain the complex, tensile fabrics of the originals, while she weaves them into beautiful new cloth. Here is a debut worth the wait. Kate Light Wendy Sloan has taken the time to learn her craft and has produced a first collection of thoughtful, considerate, well-wrought poems that explore an engaging variety of relationships over time and space. The reader who takes them up will find not only a guide but a friend. Charles Martin

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0692590498
• ISBN13: 9780692590492
• Release Date: February 2016
• Publisher: White Violet Press
• Length: 70 Pages
• Weight: 0.35 lbs.
• Dimensions: 9.0" x 0.2" x 6.0"