GARDEN OF THINGS LOST by Paula Sayword

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Paula Sayword’s Garden of Things Lost contains the unspeakable beside the ordinariness of everyday live—the profane and the sweetness of life. These poems hold the holiness of an inner worlds with details of our mundane selves…her words reach all of us: mothers, sisters, lovers, children. We traverse her path on a journey from one’s beginning to reconciling one’s limited time in this blessed life of her and ours. We, too, “stumble after God.”

-Abigail Warren, author of Air-Breathing Life and Infinite Grace

All good poetry is an exploration rather than a statement. Paula Sayword’s Garden of Things Lost manages to explore her life, experience and environment in ways that let us see through her eyes. Although sunshine exists in these poems, there is also darkness, loss and the entire panoply of what meaningful stories bring to our journey through life. It is worth reading simply because this is a poetry of essence and uses language in a way that dances in the ears and images that bring alive our seeing. I cannot recommend it highly enough.

--Tom Davis, author of numerous books, include In the Unsettled Homestead of Dreams, An American Sprit, and Apples for a Wild Stallion.

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Paula Sayword’s full length book of poetry, Canticle of Light and Darkwas recently published by The Synthesis Center Press.  A chapbook, What Sleeps Inside,was published by Slate Roof Press in the summer of 2010.  Her poetry has appeared in Sanctuary: The Journal of Massachusetts Audubon Society, the Naugatuck River Review, Cyclamen & Swords, Sinister Wisdom, The Zuni Mountain Poets, and Adrienne Rich: A Tribute Anthology. She lives in Leyden with her longtime woman partner and spends time each year in Ramah, New Mexico.