Review of Sheri-D Wilson’s Bulls Whips & Lambs Wool
Reviews of Books I Got for Free or Cheap recently published a thoughtful review of Sheri-D Wilson’s poetry collection Bulls Whip & Lambs Wool, reflecting on the intensity, craft, and emotional undercurrents of the work.
Dawn Macdonald notes that the poems feel like “liner notes for audio you’re not hearing, or exhibition text for a show you’re not seeing,” highlighting the performative energy that animates the text on the page.
They also point to the “super fun” Belle Starr section, full of conflicted energy and surreal imagery, and quote lines such as:
“There was a T T Time when the snow fell white / But the marshmallow on the coat hanger / Burst into flame / Falling out of sight…”
On the book’s final page, the reviewer describe a closing pronouncement as “some witchy stuff, prime weirdness,” emphasizing the book’s delight in oddity and its willingness to shift readers into “another dimension of reality.”
We are grateful for the care and attention given to Bulls Whip & Lambs Wool and for the continued dialogue around Sheri-D’s work.
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