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Cheryl L Snell
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May.15.2012

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PUBLISHED: Jan.16.2011

Variations on a Theme with Harmonica

Each of these five stories, linked by icons and symbols like Barbie dolls, harmonicas, and fat, are punctuated by original art by award winning expressionist Janet Snell. Writer Deborah Batterman says: "Writers are often asked where their ideas come from. A more telling question might be what form those ideas -- poems, novels, stories short and long -- shape...

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PUBLISHED: Mar.05.2010

Shiva's Arms

When Alice marries Ramesh, her new mother-in-law, named Shiva for the Hindu god of Creation and Destruction, usurps the young woman’s authority in her own home, never letting her forget her lowly place in the Indian joint-family. On one annual visit, the power struggle between the women is interrupted when a family secret is revealed; it costs Shiva everything. While Alice nurses...

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PUBLISHED: Jul.16.2009

Rescuing Ranu

When Nela Sambashivan visits her native India to research the mathematics of collectives, she is drawn instead into the lives of ten year old Ranu, the cunning motel-keeper who exploits her, and an unscrupulous Uncle who believes that everything is for sale. Nela’s transformation from abstract thinker to selfless guardian begins when she rescues Ranu from a forced marriage, and...

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PUBLISHED: Mar.15.2009

Prisoner's Dilemma

In game theory’s prisoner’s dilemma problem, two prisoners are given the choice between silence, and the betrayal of the other. The optimal choice turns out to be betrayal and therein lies the game’s paradox. In PRISONER'S DILEMMA, the book of art and poetry by the Snell sisters, the undercurrent of treachery winds its way through lyrical, narrative free verse accompanied by...

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PUBLISHED: Nov.30.2008

Multiverse

a chapbook of science themed poems accompanied by original oil paintings

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PUBLISHED: Oct.23.2011

Fusion

drawings and poems by the sisters Snell

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PUBLISHED: Jul.01.2007

Samsara

Eighteen poems depicting Indian life

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Epithalamion

Comstock Review calls Epithalamion "a 64 page collection with an unusual binding. Inside it’s vintage Snell but more surreal, and with more Hindu content and themes. Again, she stuns us with her imagery." This volume includes seven linocuts by the artist Janet Snell.

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Flower Half Blown

"a 25 page chapbook of varied and beautifully imaged lyric narratives"---Comstock Review

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Apr.17.2012 - 3:27 pm

Because My Name is Mother

Deborah Batterman's new ebook, just published as a Kindle Single, is intimate and inventive. The linked essays in Because My Name is Mother are rich with telling details. Objects...

Mar.18.2012 - 7:25 am

How to Survive a Storm

If there’s thunder, plug your ears. Putter around the house in something loose and elastic, flashlight in hand. A power outage should turn your focus toward storm drains and...

Jan.31.2012 - 9:42 am

Dusk

There’s the daylight in ruins, and you here willing to be ruined too, willing night to crawl across a city full of men wanting to ruin you. Here comes one now, ripe with...

Jan.30.2012 - 9:43 am

Poem: Undertow

On the way down, she sees what blue swells and whitecaps are not: not fists of diamonds, nor rocking hips, not rippling limbs tossing up fish nor are they sorry for the depths to...

Comments from Cheryl

May.27.2012 - 4:27 am

In response to: Thank you, Red Room! Without you, these poems wouldn't have been born!

It's here!

I've been reading the poems aloud to my mother. It's wonderful to see how your music reaches her. Thank you for your...

Apr.25.2012 - 10:16 am

In response to: Thank you, Red Room! Without you, these poems wouldn't have been born!

Congratulations, Rosy!

I'm so pleased to see this, I put up a post with your particulars at my Shiva's Arms blog. Best of luck!

Apr.13.2012 - 3:50 pm

In response to: Coming Before the Bluebells Fade...

Rosy!

It's wonderful to see this! Congratulations.

Feb.19.2012 - 2:46 pm

In response to: Discovered

The new wave? So be it. One

The new wave? So be it. One of my publishers is still smarting from have to dismantle my book and reformat it for...

Oct.11.2011 - 8:26 am

In response to: Bacchus Laureate

Enjoyed this!

Wit & charm unbound.

Published Reviews

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Sep.09.2011

Published by Amazon

THAT FEEL is one of the finest collaborative books published by the sisters Snell. Cheryl Snell is a fine poet and her sister Janet Snell is a fine expressionist artist. In...

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Video: Intricate Things in their Fringed Peripheries

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About Cheryl

My books include poetry and fiction. My first novel, Shiva's Arms, tells the story of an American woman who marries into a Hindu Brahmin family, and explores the themes of cultural identity and the meaning of family. When I married into a Hindu Brahmin...

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