Sarah Gordon
Sarah Gordon, the author of Flannery O’Connor: The Obedient Imagination and A Literary Guide to Flannery O’Connor’s Georgia, is a prolific poet in her retirement, publishing work most recently in Sewanee Review, The Georgia Review, Shenandoah, and Carolina Quarterly. She won second prize in the William Matthews Poetry Contest sponsored by Asheville Poetry Review.
Reading List
In the Valley of the Shadow
How she remembers, years after her mother died, that big lake in her childhood, so wide, her father pronounced solemnly, you couldn’t see across. How that first lesson in unfathomable distance stayed with her, the limits of vision, the senseless …
A Year into the Depression
Father sold the horses, grumbling, Fewer bellies to fill. Their lives for ours, you know. We were openmouthed screeching baby birds, all appetite and sound, and we knew we had to amount to something, to make it worth the swap. …