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The word ‘sibilance’ refers to pronunciations of the letter ‘s’, including the emission of a hissing or whistling sound. As the title of Sally Van Doren’s fourth collection of poetry, the word alerts readers to the sounds of language in the poems that follow in abecedarian order.

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Tactile, luminous, and original in voice, Sally Van Doren's Sibilance is a journey of the body and its elusive ache and the shape of living in the name of life itself." - Rachel Eliza Griffiths

"Van Doren transports us from the inside of our own bodies to the cosmos in a single line and renders even the banalities of life with an imagery that gains in power, pulling the poems of this collection into one ecstatic dance." - Emma Sheanshang

"Van Doren's trim and brisk poems display a thrilling diction at every turn. She applies wit and acuity equally to both exultation and elegy." - Chanda Feldman

"Sibilance is a beautiful, propulsive excavation and magnification of life's transitions. At times heart-wrenching, Van Doren's voice is piercingly anatomical, yanking us deeper into a synesthetic understanding of colors as emotions, trees as companions, bodies as maps." - Phyllis Grant

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      Publisher Louisiana State University Press
      Published 9/27/2023 12:00:00 AM
      ISBN-13 9780807180181
      978-0807180181
      ISBN-10 0807180181
      Also in:
      Phonetics, phonology

      Description

      Book Synopsis
      The word ‘sibilance’ refers to pronunciations of the letter ‘s’, including the emission of a hissing or whistling sound. As the title of Sally Van Doren’s fourth collection of poetry, the word alerts readers to the sounds of language in the poems that follow in abecedarian order.

      Trade Review
      Tactile, luminous, and original in voice, Sally Van Doren's Sibilance is a journey of the body and its elusive ache and the shape of living in the name of life itself." - Rachel Eliza Griffiths

      "Van Doren transports us from the inside of our own bodies to the cosmos in a single line and renders even the banalities of life with an imagery that gains in power, pulling the poems of this collection into one ecstatic dance." - Emma Sheanshang

      "Van Doren's trim and brisk poems display a thrilling diction at every turn. She applies wit and acuity equally to both exultation and elegy." - Chanda Feldman

      "Sibilance is a beautiful, propulsive excavation and magnification of life's transitions. At times heart-wrenching, Van Doren's voice is piercingly anatomical, yanking us deeper into a synesthetic understanding of colors as emotions, trees as companions, bodies as maps." - Phyllis Grant

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