Böcker av Sierra Demulder

If every experience lasted forever there would be nothing to immortalize in writing.In Sierra DeMulder's melancholic yet hopeful poetry collection, Ephemera, she writes with the wisdom of someone who has learned to love and lose. The poems read delicately, fleeting memories on the page. The deaths of family members who clung to life, the vital and breathing love she feels for her wife, DeMulder ruminates on what will come and what will fade. Throughout this exploration of impermanence, you can feel the warmth DeMulder holds for her family in every line, even the moments she wishes she could forget. Ephemera brings to life a complicated truth: that which is most ephemeral, most fleeting, is ultimately all that lasts.

Within the pages of her second book, Sierra DeMulder delves into the corridors of her childhood in a quaint town. New Shoes on a Dead Horse explores heartache, loss, and the transformative prospect of transcending suffering, all guided by the voice of her own genius. Throughout the narrative, her captivating character makes appearances, offering enchanting commentary and poignant insights into the young author's creative journey and emotional odyssey.

A clear voice of her generation, Sierra DeMulder's writing offers a gritty yet sincere perspective on the dichotomy of living; pain coupled with joy. This collection delicately carries the reader to a place of brutal, beautiful honesty. DeMulder's personal revelations complete a touching portrait of the artist and her fearless exploration of the human experience, bare in its rawest and most tender forms.Praise"Sierra DeMulder possesses the most important quality a young writer can have, a unique voice. That voice exploded onto the national spoken word scene, moving her rapidly up the ranks as one of the most exciting performance poets working today. Sierra uses subtlety and tension the way photographers use angle. She will eat your heart with a spoon."- Karen Finnyfrock"...violently passionate and sweet, deftly moving between the two modes."- The Lamron, SUNY Geneseo"...intensely personal."- Huffington Post