Sundress Publications announces the release of Donna Vorreyer’s latest poetry collection, Unrivered. Donna Vorreyer strikes gold with Unrivered, a stunning collection of poems that meditate on grief, regret, longing, self-love, and acceptance. Reeling from the loss of her parents, Vorreyer’s speaker is forced to grapple with her own mortality, and with the complicated feelings that come with aging.
At times whispering softly in our ears, at times spitting venom with every word, Vorreyer charts the ways loss impacts the body and our perceptions of self, and how we are to keep on living. With a heroic sonnet crown woven through the book like the loose stitches in her grandmother’s quilt, Vorreyer offers hope, courage, and gratitude in the face of our deepest fears. The result is a masterful and gripping story of loss and acceptance. Offering up rending, apocalyptic elegy, ironic detachment, or passionate, joyful celebration of life, Unrivered is bound to both take your breath away and give it a new form.
Patricia Smith, author of The Intentions of Thunder: New and Selected Poems, writes that “Unrivered is the revelation that comes after grief. It raises the wounded but adamant voices of those who fight against disappearing.”
Taylor Byas, author of I Done Clicked My Heels Three Times and winner of the 2023 Maya Angelou Book Award, says “Donna Vorreyer leads us by the hand from the noisy, news-ridden world into the muted quiet of the forest, a quiet in which we can finally hear ourselves.”
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Donna Vorreyer is the author of four full-length poetry collections, all from Sundress Publications. Donna currently lives in the western suburbs of Chicago, runs the online reading series A Hundred Pitchers of Honey, and is the co-editor/co-founder of the online journal Asterales: A Journal of Arts & Letters.
