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On Easter Monday 2025, the poet and photographer Alexis Rhone Fancher lost her sister, Debra Lynn, to cancer. Alexis began writing a series of poems that came to her in pantoum form, one well suited to the circularity of emotional trauma like grief. These 21 pantoums celebrate the life and spirit of her beloved sister.

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This book is hauntingly beautiful, an amazing piece of writing on all levels.... The pantoum is a Malaysian form that requires a scholarly yet interpretive approach to work with the English linguistic. The superb technical skill this takes -- the art of poetry if you will -- is on full display in these poems. Sinkhole is both a literary as well as somatic masterpiece in which we are reminded the greater our love for one another the harder it is to say goodbye -- we grieve for the dead in an ancient place in the body. This is a book of enormous humanity. --Gary Lemons, author of nine collections of poetry including The Weight of Light and his series the Snake Quartet -------------------------------------------------- Sinkhole is an elegy in poems; a eulogy that does everything we hope memory will do -- not just edify the one who has passed, but to bring them to life. Rhone Fancher offers us the contrapunction of the respect, devotion, and love she has for her sister while witnessing her slow loss of life. As Debra Lynn (z""l) grows sicker and sicker, more of her verve, her style, her fierce and defiant nature is recognized within these poems. With this elegiac series of pantoums Rhone Fancher has given her sister the ""after-life"" she deserves: one where we all come to know Debra Lynn intimately and to love her through her sister's love. This is an exquisite, unique, and moving remembrance that will touch every heart. --Rachel Neve-Midbar, author of Salaam of Birds (z""l): zichrona livracha, Hebrew expression meaning ""May her memory be for a blessing"" ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Rhone Fancher's masterful pantoums mesmerize with their clarity. These poems ruminate on what it means to live with an awareness of death, showing us how to consciously grieve and love with abandon. --Chanel Brenner, author of Vanilla Milk: a memoir told in poems and Smile or else

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