Hard Fruit: A Book of Poetry

by Sahli Cavallaro

Overview

The poems in this book reflect a multitude of inspirational sources. The author has a passion for describing the myriad of quirks in people who might otherwise go unnoticed. She finds revelation in the luxurious fruits, lifting spirituality, and intense mystery involved with loving women. She assumes a cause for the neglect and misuse of animals in their domestic and natural kingdom. Forever inspired by possibilities obscured by habits, she tends to drive through the superiority motives behind the intent to reject what does not fit. Her verse is meant to disturb and delight with what has yet been unspoken. The book is political, philosophical, personal, erotic, and surrealistic.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9798881168933
Publisher:	Barnes & Noble Press
Publication date:	05/01/2024
Pages:	58
Product dimensions:	5.00(w) x 8.00(h) x 0.14(d)

About the Author

SAHLI ANNE CAVALLARO, PHD, is a psychologist and Lesbian/Buddhist idented poet living and practicing in California. She is a native New Yorker who comes from a family tradition of poets. She started writing poetry as a child. Her great, great grandfather was a poet who wrote and read humorous animal poems, long ago once a common genre among Sicilian poets, in the town square of a town in the foothills of Mt. Etna. Her grandmother wrote poetry that was published in women’s magazines in the 1930’s and 40’s. She is inspired by such poets as Williams Carlos Williams, Garcia Lorca and May Swenson. The poems in this book reflect a multitude of inspirational sources. The author has a passion for describing the myriad of quirks in people who might otherwise go unnoticed. She finds revelation in the luxurious fruits, lifting spirituality, and intense mystery involved with loving women. She assumes a cause for the neglect and misuse of animals in their domestic and natural kingdom. Forever inspired by possibilities obscured by habits, she tends to drive through to the superiority motives behind the intent to reject that which does not fit. Her verse is meant to disturb and delight with what has yet been unspoken. Hard Fruit is her second book of poetry written since she found a home in Northern California with her beloved animal companions. She practices clinical psychology privately and in a military setting. She has read throughout the country including the West Village of New York City, the Halls of Vanderbilt University, in Albany NY, Norther California, and in Nashville, Tennessee. She has published one other book, The Second Arrow (available in Hard Cover at Amazon.com), since she moved to California.