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Sirenland - A new poetry collection by Jennifer Barone, published by Feather Press, featuring original, 24 color illustrations and photographs by the author. A reclamation of personal lineage - Sirenland is a mythic conversation across time with the poet's ancestors from the Bay of Naples, Italy. Ancestral spirits rise from sea caves and memory - as the poet reimagines her grandparents as sirens, singing stories long submerged. In this collection, the sirens are not feared monsters but radiant guardians of land, sea, and the Napoletani people-mystic mothers and keepers of thresholds. The ache of ancestral loss and immigration threads through grottos and sea caves of oracular whisper, as Vesuvio stirs with ancestral fire and the sea becomes a liminal realm of longing, alchemy, and rebirth. Though the sirens' voices have been silenced over centuries, these poems listen deeply, inviting their songs to be heard by all who are ready to receive them.

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Jennifer is an Italian-American poet and artist, born in Brooklyn, New York, with roots in the Bay of Naples, Italy. She is the author of four poetry collections including ""Saporoso, Poems of Italian Food & Love,"" from Feather Press, and the creator of the original paintings featured in this book. A two-time winner of the San Francisco Public Library's ""Poets Eleven"" contest for North Beach, where Jennifer resides - a neighborhood known for its Italian heritage and a lineage of poets and artists. At Telegraph Hill Books and Libreria Pino, she curates and hosts Italian-English poetry readings, leads writing workshops, and hosts the ""Voices From the Hill"" podcast, interviewing SF Bay Area authors at telhilit.org/podcast. Her work has been published in literary journals, and featured at SF LitQuake, SFMOMA, de Young Museum, SF Public Library, Marin Poetry Center, Petaluma Poetry Walk, and the SF Jazz Poetry and Jazz Festival, among others. Visit: jenniferbarone.wordpress.com and on Instagram: @baronejenn

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