Shoreless

by Enid Shomer

Winner of the 2019 Lexi Rudnitsky Editor’s Choice Award, this sensuous collection bravely endeavors to share the wisdom age confers. In Shoreless , her fifth collection of poetry, Enid Shomer continues to explore her passionate relationship with the Florida landscape, the inextricable web of family, and the challenges of the body. While studded with the austere recognitions of growing older, these poems are punctuated by humor and play―formally elegant and inventive, beautifully textured and nuanced. Throughout the book, Shomer employs the  language of science and Eros to uncover the exquisite truths of pain and pleasure.

80 pages, Paperback

Published October 20, 2020

About the author

Enid Shomer is an award-winning American poet and fiction writer. She is author of six poetry collections and two short story collections largely set in, influenced by, and life in the State of Florida.

Reviews

[Becky Loader · Rating 4 out of 5]

Ahhhh. Enjoy these poems a little at a time while drinking a nice cup of Darjeeling.

[N.L. Holmes · Rating 5 out of 5]

Shoreless was gorgeously lyrical and at the same time intelligent, almost learned. The poet's joie de vivre in the face of terrible health crises uplifted me and made such topics not only bearable but beautiful. We read it for our poetry book club and came away wowed. Her experience as a person and a poet have made her wise, and generous enough to share that wisdom. If you love luscious figures of speech and total mastery of the language, you'll eat this up.

[Daniel · Rating 5 out of 5]

When I heard of Enid Shomer’s newest release, I just had to get my hands on it. “Driving through the Animal” is, to me, one of the most stunning poems of this decade, and the rest of the book doesn’t disappoint.

[Sally Boots · Rating 5 out of 5]

Perfectly crafted, delicious poems.