Sarah Barber, author of The Kissing Party, has published poems in Ninth Letter, Pleiades, New Ohio Review, Columbia Poetry Review, Crazyhorse, and Poetry, among other publications. She teaches at St. Lawrence University in Canton, NY.

Other poems by Sarah Barber in Verse Daily:
October 2, 2012:   "Building the Waterfall" "Let this be October in Public Works'..."
June 14, 2010:   "a classical education can’t save you from the radio" "I looked up sky. I blued, obscured....."
March 1, 2010:   "White Live Doves for Funerals" "According to Birds of North America..."

Books by Sarah Barber:

Other poems on the web by Sarah Barber:
Two poems
Three poems
"Co-Operative"
Four poems
Three poems
"Porcupine"
"Still-Life, with Bruise"

About Country House:

"Precision is not care, or it is-but care that cuts, both ways. Country House dwells deceptively in its landscapes of 'bare// storefronts and rocky farms.' The poems in this relentlessly gorgeous volume insist on the ordering of language and image as a bulwark against brutality .... There is nothing simple here, nothing that has not been honed to a fine tip in the too short daylight of a long winter, nothing that doesn't serve at least two purposes in kitchen or yard, bed or mind."
—Kirsten Kaschak

"Country House is a book that speaks vividly of the inherited earth. In language at once delicate and muscular, smart and sharp, these poems question what we accept of the places and lands we label with 'home' .... There is astute playfulness in poems about potatoes, chickens, herbs, stock animals, and the 'sweet Instagrammable strawberries' that could just as easily emerge from the latest 3-D printer. This book wants to know what we are too hungry to reveal; what flora, fads, and foods we knowingly consume for healing or for poison."
—Lillian-Yvonne Bertram