Shoreless
Enid Shomer

2019 Lexi Rudnitsky Editor’s Choice Award Winner


In Shoreless Enid Shomer continues exploring her passionate relationship with the Florida landscape, the inextricable web of family, and the challenges of the body. While studded with the austere recognitions of growing older, these poems are punctuated by humor and play—formally elegent and inventive, beautifully textured and nuanced. Shomer employs the language of science and Eros to uncover exquisite truths of pain and pleasure.

“Enid Shomer’s heroic new collection is ringed by the vast, floating horizon of each moment—and, closer in, the depths: memory, love, loss, solitude. With formal grace and moral agility, these poems chart our transformations by art and heart.”
—Donald Morrill

“Everywhere in this gorgeous book, [Shomer’s] gargantuan talents are in play.”
—Michelle Boisseau

Enid Shomer is the author of five books of poetry, three of fiction, and the editor of an anthology. Her poems have appeared in The Atlantic, Paris Review, Poetry, Tikkun, and elsewhere. She lives in Tampa.

Paperback / $15.95 (Can $21.95) / ISBN 978-0-89255-521-5 / 96 pages / Poetry