Drone StringDrone String

"In this fully mature first book, Sherry Cook Stanforth braids together place, family, and music in imagery that ranges from homey as zhominy and banjosy to taut as a dulcimer's string. Drone String re-members the familial past, and imagines how, through the integrative power of tradition and memory, that past is part of now, insistent and intact. Vivid portraits and telling anecdotes remind us that all our lives are worthy, full of stories and meaning. A professor-musician, and part of a family band for decades, Stanforth has an ear for how people really sound, and for how poetry dances language into song."--Page [4] of cover.