Poetry

Bad Daughter explores misbehavior―its risky pleasures and often tragic consequences―through poems about “bad” daughters, sisters, and their mothers. What happens to the sister who obeys? What if a daughter refuses her inheritance? Can she?

In The Cure, Sarah Gorham’s mature, eager, intelligent poetic voice explores family―and marriage; and self―as forms in which we move, escaping and demanding restraint, seeking and fearing contact with each other.

Surprise is an element that Sarah Gorham uses with a masterful touch: subtle revelations rather than heavy-handed twists. She crafts her images as framed paintings in which you suddenly realize there is another layer behind the landscape that the surface appears to hold.

Collects poems dealing with mortality, faith, love, and everyday living.