Winter Sharp with Apples

<p><span style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>In </span><em style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>Winter Sharp with Apples</em><span style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)> Annette Sisson's poetic gifts are on full display. Her language is crisp and clean-a readability that's instructive a readability rich with emotional and intellectual pleasures. I often found myself delighted by a line or an image then felt myself pulled into a nexus of thinking and feeling. Her language is layered resonant. Her gaze is attentive to the natural world and family. But she knows that the natural world has cycles; time will diminish flesh and bonds. Her poems summon forth the intimacies that illuminate that shape our lives. Sisson is a marvelous poet. Her poems-deftly built deeply felt-remind us love is what endures.</span></p><p><span style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>-Eduardo C. Corral </span><em style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>Guillotine</em><span style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)> (2020)</span></p>