Customer Reviews:

Poetry in America is not dead. Shadows Ink proves that poetry is very much alive and thriving with every distinctive chapbook they publish. Personally, each new book of poetry I review teaches me something about myself and life. In Random Elements, for example, the poet introduced two forms of poetry unfamiliar to me -- rictameter and lanturne chain – but she's equally adept creating haiku, etheree, acrostic, and free form.

"Meditation of a Meadow" is haiku, simple and evocative:

        tasseled tufts murmur
        a farewell to the golden
        embrace of the sun

"The Sidewalk" is an entertaining, imaginative metaphorical poem written from the sidewalk's perspective. I quote one verse in excerpt:

        Countless lives tread upon my being daily,
        With no thought what holds them upright.
        Made from the restless eons of rock,
        Ground up and poured out of their might.

This excerpt from "Dance of the Dolphins" communicates the joyous exuberance these creatures of the deep find in their simple existence:

        They race together, through the cerulean course
        Bouncing patterns of buoyant poise
        Spinning down spirals of endless seas
        Each dolphin transformed into an ocean flyer.

In this chapbook celebrating the random elements of earth, air, fire, water, and love, Ms. Sanchez-Barnett takes her readers to those undiscovered vistas vibrating within the human spirit. Colorful cover art by CarrieAnn Thunell pleases the reader's eye and captures beautifully the contents of this fine chapbook." - Laurel Johnson, Midwest Book Review