Shannon Sonnenberg-Pietila

Across the Room Shannon Sonnenberg-Pietila

Between the ages of seventeen and twenty-seven, Shannon wrote poetry and prose to make sense of the stories that she was told and the stories that she was living about love. Together, this book is Across the Room. After the title of each poem, there is a sentence about what she learned from each experience. From a stale relationship in which each person wonders who will be brave enough to say something to a couple wondering if they should rekindle a romance that they started fifty-three years ago, each poem encompasses you with enough emotion so that you feel as if you are also experiencing the story.