Phyllis St George

Sweet Blisters is a visual covenant, guaranteed to renew readers. We can feel the texture of refusal, grace, and refuge across each poetic line. Difficult familial confessions reverberate tension - post tears. Warm nostalgic moments offer immense expectations: St. George encourages us to "capture poems and release them.” These poems shall return, take root, and multiply. St. George’s season is now.

-Delicia Daniels, author of The Language We Cry In
Recipient of The 2017 Discovery Prize for the Writers’ League of Texas Book Awards

At turns subtly heart-wrenching and subversively joyful, Phyllis St. George's Sweet Blisters is perfectly titled. The narrator's heart, memory, trauma, yearning, wisdom, and wit dance gracefully on the page as she goes "looking for a poem" and ends up finding that and more. We get the honor of witnessing it all unfold via expert maneuvers of craft and form. This is an incredibly poignant, wise, and unique voice and collection.

-Carolyn Zaikowski, author of In a Dream, I Dance Myself, and I Collapse and Poet Laureate of Easthampton, Massachusetts