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“…the poet mourns in “Chronic,” p.20, “I surrender what I never grasped. Nothing sexy about/chronic pain, nothing funny—not a good story.” Meanwhile, I was thinking, this story is riveting. This collection is riveting.”
Pamela Hobart Carter, from her review in the Seattle Star“Sarah Stockton's THE SCARECROW OF MY FORMER SELF (MoonPath Press) is a raw, unflinching collection about living with chronic illness. Brave in self-advocacy, tender in revolt, and the scarecrow: a metaphor for self-reclamation and renewal.”
“With vulnerability and gorgeous, lush imagery, Sarah Stockton presents a portrait of a life not defined by illness but circumscribed by it; a hybrid life of hospital visits and encounters with crystal healers, coyotes, iguanas. Stockton's poems of simultaneous rage and grace illuminate the realities of the chronically ill.”
Jeannine Hall Gailey, author of Flare, Corona (BOA Editions) and Field Guide to the End of the World (Moon City Press)
