Alexandrina Sergio's first full-length poetry collection presents a wide range of feeling, from depths of profound sorrow to heights of raucous humor. Marked by utter honesty, its ascents and descents are sheer and enormously invigorating. We are presented with the rollicking high spirits of the book's first section, "Old Lady Gone Bad" the utterly honest and deeply moving poems of the second section, "To Dare Love" and finally, the more somber poems of loss and mortality in the final section, "All that Remains.". Always there is a delicious mixture of mood: the sad poems contain moments of wry wit, and the overtly humorous or raucous poems contain deeper undercurrents. This is a book for all seasons of the heart.
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There's a rock and roll, rip-roaring buoyancy to these poems. Oh with what panache and grace Alexandrina Sergio transforms and celebrates her every day! --Honor Moore, author of The Bishop's Daughter
Sandy Sergio's poems are vigorous and celebratory in the tradition of E.E. Cummings. From God on the radio to blessed bikers, eros is twinned with monsters under the bed, and ribald humor with the ashes of dead lovers. These poems are bright in a dark time. --Doug Anderson, author of Keep Your Head Down
After the high spirits and spitfiring in the first half of My Daughter Is Drummer in the Rock 'n Roll Band, the depth of emotion in the book's second half is all the more profound. --Rennie McQuilkin, author of The Weathering: New & Selected Poems
Sandy Sergio's poems are vigorous and celebratory in the tradition of E.E. Cummings. From God on the radio to blessed bikers, eros is twinned with monsters under the bed, and ribald humor with the ashes of dead lovers. These poems are bright in a dark time. --Doug Anderson, author of Keep Your Head Down
After the high spirits and spitfiring in the first half of My Daughter Is Drummer in the Rock 'n Roll Band, the depth of emotion in the book's second half is all the more profound. --Rennie McQuilkin, author of The Weathering: New & Selected Poems
About the Author
Alexandrina Sergio traces her passion for poetry to her Irish mother's habit of mixing in the works of Celtic poets with bedtime nursery tales. William Butler Yeats and Little Red Riding Hood equally inhabited her childhood. As an English teacher, Sandy coached prize-winning student poets. Subsequent careers as executive director of a community-based mental health agency, director of a philanthropic foundation, and consultant in philanthropy encroached on poetry-writing time, but retirement has allowed broader opportunities for writing and reading her poetry. Her work has been published in a number of journals and anthologies and has twice been performed by a professional stage company. Her awards include first place in the 2007 Connecticut Senior Poetry Contest and second place in the 2008 Dorman John Grace Contest. She lights up at the sight of a microphone. Sandy and her husband, musician David Sergio, have four children and three grandchildren. They live in Glastonbury, Connecticut
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My Daughter Is Drummer in the Rock'n Roll Band was a wonderful surprise. I bought it because our book-club was reading it. I loved it! I have not read an entire book of poetry in a long, long time, if ever. I realize that I keep thinking about some of the ideas and images. Something mundane will remind me of a poem and the beautiful view of life that is captured in these lines. Some are funny; some are sad; some touching. All are beautiful. I will be looking for more from this gifted poet and this book has spurred my interest in poetry.
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