The Worry Dolls

By confronting worry and its power over the imagination, the poems of Shannon K. Winston’s latest book pull open the “knotted thoughts” that web beneath the surface of perception. Vibrant, musical, and formally innovative, this book connects with our contemporary psyche through lyric poems that ache with story, song, and vision. “A vibrato is more than an echo— // it is the interplay of two pitches,” The Worry Dolls reminds us in poems that explore the tension and revelation within metaphor. Winston’s The Worry Dolls masterfully weaves memory and image, bravely facing down the stories we tell ourselves and urging us to “Pull out an arrow. // Pierce fear through the heart.”

—Tyler Mills, author of Hawk Parable and Tongue Lyre

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