Sarah Freligh is the author of A Brief Natural History of an American Girl, winner of the Editor’s Choice award from Accents Publishing in 2012, and Sort of Gone, a book of poems that follows the rise and fall of a fictional pitcher named Al Stepansky. Recent work has been featured on Verse Daily, The Sun Magazine, Brevity, Rattle, Barn Owl Review, […]
Sarah Freligh
Sarah Freligh: A Review of Teresa Leo’s Bloom in Reverse
In The Myth of Sisyphus, Albert Camus suggests that the “only really serious philosophical question . . . is suicide.” Sisyphus is condemned to push a boulder uphill only to see it roll back. In the wake of a loved one’s suicide, the living are left to puzzle over unfathomable loss, the metaphorical rock that […]