Evening ChorePoems by Shari Wagner
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"Evening Chore is a terrific book, full of wisdom, imagination, humor and magic. Shari Wagner's observant eye captures what has disappeared from view - a vanished bridge, a lost dog, an amazing heron, a way of life - and preserves it. In poems that are both calm and exact she records those haunted moments when the present splits open to reveal the astonishing past." - Maura Stanton, author, Glacier Wine
"With visual acuity and musical grace, Wagner invites us to hear and see what might be lost, illuminating for us our common histories as well as the strange and unfamiliar. We find ourselves standing with her in the garden where 'the story of what/ it loses is the story of what it loves.' And in this drifting we hear her voice calling to us to come out of our own shadows as evening falls, to retrieve a forgotten or silenced voice, to recover the wonder of a place, and to enter the bittersweet, rhythmic sway of grief and love." - Jean Janzen, author, Tasting the Dust
About the Author
Shari Wagner has an M.F.A. in Creative Writing from Indiana University, and her poems have appeared in various literary magazines including Southern Poetry Review, Indiana Review, Black Warrior Review, and the anthology, A Cappella: Mennonite Voices in Poetry (University of Iowa Press). She has been awarded multiple fellowships from the Arts Council of Indianapolis as well as the Indiana Arts Commission and has taught writing in elementary schools, colleges, and nursing homes.