Books
DIORAMA
DIORAMA is a full-length book of poems that details various forms of hunger from the perspective of a female speaker in turmoil. The collection also serves as a commonplace book which catalogues the author’s poetic influences. DIORAMA’s speaker undergoes a re-wilding process in her exploration of the natural world. The book is divided into three sections beginning in tribulation, acquiring knowledge in the wilderness, and ultimately finding a new awareness. The collection draws heavily from other poets’ work, especially the writing of Gerard Manley Hopkins, Octavio Paz, Elizabeth Bishop, Anne Sexton, and Li-Young Lee. In addition, DIORAMA explores a woman’s relationship with food. The book provides an immersive, sonic experience for readers.
Aisle 228
Aisle 228 is a book of poems about the Chicago Cubs and listening to baseball on the radio. The speaker also details attending games with her father. The book highlights milestones across baseball in the past 70 years and culminates in the Cubs 2016 World Series win.
“Sandra Marchetti knows that baseball, like life, is struggle punctuated by victories but ending in failure. This is a fine book of verse.”
~John Thorn, Official Historian, Major League Baseball
The Canopy
Regional Winner of the 2011 Mississippi Valley Poetry Chapbook Contest
Heart Radicals
A book about love that’s always in movement, the most human kind of love. Movement from city to city, movement of the snow around you as you reflect, movement of feelings in and out of uncertainty, all grounded by the details of conversations and relationships and the spaces where they unfold.
Nina Freeman, Poet and Game Designer of Cibele, a game about love, sex, and the Internet
This wonderful chapbook of love poems by four different poets lives up to its title–Heart Radicals honoring their disparate voices and formal approaches to the subject while achieving a moving harmony, full of grace-notes and accommodating the occasional discord harsh or sweet of love’s enduring song.
Arnold Johnston, author of What the Earth Taught Us, SonnetsSigns and Portents, and The Witching Voice: A Novel from the Life of Robert Burns
Moving and beautifully crafted, Heart Radicals is four poets’ intimate and personal exploration of the places where we all find love.
Confluence
Forty-five poems, some of which have previously appeared in a chapbook, The canopy, published in 2012 by Midwest Writing Center Press; in A detail in the landscape, published in 2014 by Eating dog Press; and in other publications.