The Canopy

by Sandra Marchetti

Regional Winner of the 2011 Mississippi Valley Poetry Chapbook Contest

27 pages, Paperback

First published January 1, 2012

About the author

Sandra Marchetti is the author of Confluence, a debut full-length collection of poetry from Sundress Publications. Eating Dog Press also published an illustrated edition of her essays and poetry, A Detail in the Landscape, and her first volume, The Canopy, won Midwest Writing Center’s Mississippi Valley Chapbook Contest. Sandy won Second Prize in Prick of the Spindle’s 2014 Poetry Open and was a finalist for Gulf Coast’s Poetry Prize. Her poetry and prose appears in Blackbird, The Journal, Subtropics, The Hollins Critic, Sugar House Review, Mid-American Review, Thrush Poetry Journal, Green Mountains Review, South Dakota Review, Appalachian Heritage, Southwest Review, Phoebe, and elsewhere. Sandy is a teacher and freelance manuscript editor who lives and writes outside of Chicago.

Reviews

[Janeen Pergrin Rastall · Rating 5 out of 5]

It is January when wives hide the carving knives, days of sooty snowdrifts and gray skies. The remedy: pick up “The Canopy” by Sandy Marchetti. Each page will strip you, remind you of how you ‘imagine June to be: a sliver of wet movement, an arc that asks for colors to ice it hotly and shake the shake of gray.” Ms. Marchetti’s poems are rich with sensory images that remind you how love once transliterated your surroundings: every landscape, skyline, interior and shadow. You will enter her “room of night,” and “Rise in incremental shinings.” Joy explodes quietly in poems like “Divinity Redux” and “The Washing.” Love poetry is so treacherous to write yet Ms. Marchetti’s pastorals and narratives are so masterfully crafted that you will be drawn in immediately and see the world again “ruddy-faced and wild within.” If you are looking for a book of poetry for Valentine’s Day, this would be an excellent choice. Available form The Midwest Writing Center