Weaving a New Eden

> The authority of the voice in Sherry
> Chandler’s poems arrives firmly from
> the skilled and powerful imagination
> behind the work. *Weaving a New Eden*
> is personal, historical, political,
> inspired—a thoroughly satisfying work
> of art. This is a moving and original
> book wrought from a mature and subtle
> vision.

— Maurice Manning

> More than a work of history in verse,
> *Weaving a New Eden* represents poet
> Sherry Chandler’s confrontation with
> mortality, invisibility, loss and
> change. Few poets can move, dazzle,
> and enlighten us in a single book, but
> Sherry Chandler can – and does – in
> this volume of poems. From the deft
> personal lyrics that open *Weaving a
> New Eden*, through acrostic poems and
> blank verse histories to the stunning
> and graceful sonnet crown that closes
> the volume, Sherry Chandler bears her
> readers into the past and back out
> again with a sure hand. In poems both
> scholarly and witty, Chandler lifts
> Rebecca Boone out of the shadows of
> history to sturdy, quirky reality and
> gives us glimpses of the other
> invisible women whose lives make up
> the hidden half of history. In *Weaving
> a New Eden* Sherry Chandler proves
> herself a gifted poet at ease in a
> range of forms and subjects. Her work
> deserves a wide readership.

— Leatha Kendrick