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Another Word For Love
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Sarah Stern's Another Word for Love is part of Finishing Line’s critically acclaimed Chapbook Series. Stern explores love, loss, death, and desire in the family one is born into as well as in the family that one creates. It asks, among other questions, how one lives and finds beauty in a broken world.
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Sarah Stern's Another Word for Love is part of Finishing Line’s critically acclaimed Chapbook Series. Stern explores love, loss, death, and desire in the family one is born into as well as in the family that one creates. It asks, among other questions, how one lives and finds beauty in a broken world.

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Off Mott Street

 

Give me something to hold on to

blue of daybreak

as you move over the trees,

make me remember

the lines on my palms,

river road to somewhere new,

mother milk, love me like sugar.

Night, whole slices

by the yellow moon bench

where the girls in silver smoke

sit pretty, tulips.

Green turtles squirm upward

in a white bucket off Mott Street,

their shells soft like the first time

you brought me a cage.

I sat down in it and waited,

waited for you.

 

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About Sarah

Sarah Stern’s first book Another Word for Love was published by Finishing Line Press in May 2011. Her poems have appeared in magazines, anthologies, and online, and most recently in Epiphany.  She is a four-time winner of the Bronx...

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Published Reviews

Dec.09.2011

In her first book of poems, Another Word for Love (Finishing Line Press), Sarah Stern looks at the big themes of love, loss and death with a creative and lyrical approach. In her poems, she often...

Dec.09.2011

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Author's Publishing Notes

Jacket Blurbs: “In Another Word for Love, Sarah Stern searches for meaning in a broken world. She delights in things around her, whether the El in New York or trees in New Hampshire, finding in them keys to her inner life. I read this book in the light of her clarity, exactitude, and fine intelligence.”—Grace Schulman </p><p> “Sarah Stern is a serious poet whose subject is knowledge: how do we know what we know, about love, snowstorms, shooting stars, the zoo, appetite? In these lucid, disarming poems, full of gravitas, even the elm tells her its secrets, under its ‘cathedral of dappled light.’" —Cynthia Zarin </p><p> "Vivid and opaque, innocent and sophisticated, Sarah Stern's poems in Another Word for Love are so full of life, never more than when they hint at death, that they refuse to sit still on the page. It's us she's catching in these glimmering nets."—Karen Durbin</p><p>