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Learning to Count


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The poems in Susan Shaw Sailer's Learning to Count, set in both the natural and social worlds, explore aging, violence, and reclaiming power while making the argument that individual growth and social justice work hand in hand.



About the Author :
Susan Shaw Sailer has published four books of poems-On the Doorstep, The Distance Beyond Sight, The God of Roundabouts, Ship of Light-and two chapbooks, Bulletins from a War Zone and COAL. Sailer lives in Morgantown, West Virginia, and is a member of the Madwomen in the Attic program of Carlow University and also of Pauletta Hansel's From Draft to Craft class. She was a professor of English at West Virginia University and before that taught English in Tacoma Public Schools.

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"Susan Shaw Sailer's Learning to Count reckons with family trauma, failed loves, a country that is failing its children, and the awful power of silence-angry silence, peace-keeping silence, self-protective silence. These finely crafted, emotionally unflinching poems honor the arithmetic of a woman's inner life and take us on a journey to understanding that 'love's generous / words could / silence silence.' What counts amidst all these struggles? Love's '3 perfect decades, 4 bouts / of laughter before breakfast, 1,321 ways / to sing, a trillion ways to nurture ourselves / as gifts.'" -Nancy Krygowski, co-editor of Pittsburgh Poetry Series; author of The Woman in the Corner"Learning to Count is a journey through the speaker's life that, as the best poetry does, allows the reader to understand her own journey more fully. 'At the table of my past, ghosts stare, ' Sailer writes. She encounters these ghosts with courage and compassion, with especial attention to the ways in which we move from silence into voice. 'I will not be silenced / I will not silence, ' the poet tells us. We are enriched by her words." -Pauletta Hansel, author of Understory: A Women's History of Appalachia"The poems in Learning to Count tell the story of a life from childhood to old age. Sailer's memories have the vividness and accuracy of a child raised in a home in which the father is physically and emotionally violent, and everyone else have learned silence in the face of his rage. Sailer also relates the range of world events that affect any life, including the drive-by and school shootings of recent years, the wars, the diseases, and the constant presence of guns in our lives . . . Learning to Count also conveys a study the speaker has made of language. 'To count' means to put in order. It is also a way to be present and seen, as in 'stand and be counted.' But the central meaning here is the evocation of all things that matter . . . Sailer has written beautifully of a world in which everything counts, everything matters." -Maggie Anderson, author of Dear All


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Product Details
  • ISBN-13: 9781971191195
  • Publisher: Shanti Arts LLC
  • Publisher Imprint: Shanti Arts LLC
  • Height: 216 mm
  • No of Pages: 92
  • Returnable: Y
  • Spine Width: 6 mm
  • Width: 140 mm
  • ISBN-10: 1971191191
  • Publisher Date: 16 Jun 2026
  • Binding: Paperback
  • Language: English
  • Returnable: Y
  • Returnable: Y
  • Weight: 168 gr


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