Singing Riptide

<p><em style=color: rgba(14 16 26 1)>Singing Riptide </em><span style=color: rgba(14 16 26 1)>charts Cheryl Wilder's journey from personal all-consuming shame through the intergenerational forgiveness that made self-forgiveness possible; to self-realization and belonging. A companion to </span><em style=color: rgba(14 16 26 1)>Anything That Happens</em><span style=color: rgba(14 16 26 1)> (Press 53)-the collection that chronicles the root of Wilder's shame: a car wreck at twenty that left a friend with traumatic brain injury and in a coma for four months and her in jail for DUI. As Richard Jackson states</span>: <em>Singing Riptide</em> is an intense book of memory and regret but also a marvelous triumph in the fact that [Wilder's] poetry itself creates a way for both poet and reader of this rewarding book to discover what Ross Gay would also call 'unabashed joy' and yes redemption.</p>