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Today's poem is "Translation"
from The Marriage of the Moon and the Field

Black Lawrence Press

Sunni Brown Wilkinson's poetry has been published in Crab Orchard Review, Adirondack Review, BODY, Sugar House Review, Cimarron Review, Southern Indiana Review and other journals and anthologies and has been nominated for two Pushcarts. She holds an MFA from the Inland Northwest Center for Writers at Eastern Washington University and teaches at Weber State University. She lives in northern Utah with her husband and three young sons.

Books by Sunni Brown Wilkinson:

Other poems on the web by Sunni Brown Wilkinson:
"At Last The Light in The Trees Wavers"
Two poems
"Connie Wolf, The Lady Balloonist From Blue Belle, Pennsylvania, Confesses"
Four poems

About The Marriage of the Moon and the Field:

"There is much of wonder in a first book of poems: a new voice, a freshness, other ways of being and believing. And so it is with Sunni Brown Wilkinson's The Marriage of the Moon and the Field. There are marvelous poems here, poems that range through the world: Vienna, Juarez, Andalusia, Mozambique, Venice. The poet tells us

I've looked into the world and found
my own life reassembled and given back to me
with broken glass and a birdsong.

There are poems of family (parents, children, grandparents), our primal world, and there are poems of immigrants, asylum seekers, the displaced. And weaving through all of them there is a sweet charity, a belief in grace, and a tenderness toward existence. There is as well a recognition that tragedy and loss make up a part of our lives, but in Wilkinson's vision these can be redeemed since 'we're verses with a space in between/for our own small hallelujah.' These are poems that 'you can ride...into tomorrow.' Sunni Wilkinson is a welcome new poet for our times."
—Joseph Stroud



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