Colleen J. McElroy | Akateeminen Kirjakauppa

PEN Oakland National Literary Award, 2008


Colleen J. McElroy's poetry shoots for the moon, and takes it in, too, in one way after another. The collection’s award-winning poems animate women’s experiences of sex, shopping, and dancing, while offering telling insight into the struggles and silver lining of lust, love, illness, and aging. Rich with vivid imagery and candid storytelling, Sleeping with the Moon takes readers on moonlit adventures under the night sky, through the barroom’s smoky haze, and under the covers....Beware: such delicate


sights have driven more than one woman to despair


instead she watched him breathe-- relishing


for a moment that secret space where night


grows soft and the moon’s detumescence forgives--


and where if this jeweled light holds they might


strip themselves of years if only for one night


--from “In Praise of Older Women”