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Parallel Press publishes Through Sun-glinting Particles
Posted 4/09/2012 
MADISON, Wis. – Parallel Press is pleased to announce the publication of Through Sun-glinting Particles, a collection of poetry by Wisconsin native Allegra Silberstein.
Silberstein focuses her poems on those mysteries that populate our day to day lives, among them those strange spaces between people described as ‘friendship,’ ‘love,’ and ‘desire,’ which resist true expression in words. Instead, she turns to nature and its healing powers: “Let us sing aubades to morning light, / to each new day, to each new start, to all / the wild birds that whisper hope in their flight./ Do not acquaint me with the dark of night.”
Allegra Silberstein was born in the middle of a blizzard on a farm in Wisconsin. Her Norwegian ancestors by-passed the flat prairie land and settled in the coulees and hills of the non-glaciated area near the Mississippi River. Her love of poetry began as a child when her mother recited poems as she worked. Silberstein has lived in California since 1963 but her growing years on the farm in Wisconsin brought a deep appreciation for the out-of-doors world that stays with her and sustains her.
She has over a hundred publications in journals such as Blue Unicorn, California Quarterly, Iodine Poetry Journal, Poetry Now, Rattlesnake Review and others. Her work is included in anthologies like The Sacramento Anthology: 100 Poems; Gatherings: A Woman’s Place; and Where Do I Walk. She has two chapbooks: Acceptance, published by Small Poetry Press and In The Folds, published by Rattlesnake Review. In March of 2010 she was selected as the first Poet Laureate for the city of Davis, California.
For information on how to order Through Sun-glinting Particles, visit the Parallel Press ordering page.
