Synkroniciti is excited to welcome poet Sarah Dickenson Snyder from Massachusetts with “From Eve to Me.” Looking back to the life of the biblical Eve, “all the long years she lived,/ nothing sad scrubbed away, ” Sarah contemplates how desire and sorrow take their place in individuation and how mothers, in particular, experience them. As we see in our mothers and grandmothers, it is often what is denied that shapes us and makes us grow stronger in our identity. And yet there is a time for taking, as well, whatever the result–sooner or later sorrow will arrive, regardless. We are “pulled by invisible strings” that challenge us to become different than we thought we could be, leading us to places that are far out of our sight. Is this a curse, a blessing, or something more ambivalent? Sarah’s poetry is deeply thoughtful and filled with alliterative music and vivid, succinct imagery.
Read “From Eve to Me” in Synkroniciti’s “Family” issue, available here: https://synkroniciti.com/the-magazine/purchase-individual-issues/.
Sarah Dickenson Snyder carves in stone & rides her bike. Travel opens her eyes. She has four poetry collections, The Human Contract (2017), Notes from a Nomad (nominated for the Massachusetts Book Awards 2018), With a Polaroid Camera (2019), and Now These Three Remain (nominated for the Massachusetts Book Awards 2023). Poems have been nominated for Best of Net and Pushcart Prizes. Work is in Rattle, Lily Poetry Review, and RHINO.