Let it Be a Dark Roux: New and Selected Poems 

 Sheryl St. Germain’s poetry is filled with sensual delight, with the enjoyment of good food, good company, and good music. In this retrospective collection, St. Germain returns again and again to her native New Orleans, to the bonds of family and the forces of nature that break through and spill over human walls and barriers. She teaches us how to embrace all the currents of life—its pleasures, its sorrows, its inevitable challenge to step out into the street and take up the dance once more.”  Mary Swander

 $20.00

About the author:

Sheryl St. Germain has published six poetry books, three essay collections, and co-edited two anthologies, for which she has received numerous awards, including two National Endowment for the Arts Fellowships. Her latest, Fifty Miles, a collection of essays, appeared in 2020 with Etruscan Press. Recently retired as Director of the MFA Creative Writing program at Chatham University in Pittsburgh, she now resides in Savannah, Georgia, where in addition to writing, she makes fiber art. 

Sheryl’s son, Gray, died in 2014 of a drug overdose.  Her last book of poetry, The Small Door of Your Death, (Autumn House Press) and her latest collection of lyric essays, Fifty Miles, both take as their subject the life and death of her son, and offer a personal look at the toll addiction takes on family and country.