Poetry | Soft cover | 78 pages | $16
Yerkes investigates subjects closest to her heart — childhood, family, travel, aging, art — with, as poetry teacher Bonnie Naradzay says, “absolute clarity.”
After a career as a sculptor and a landscape architect, Yerkes began writing poetry at age 97. “I never fully understood how satisfying it could be to shape, build and form a piece with words rather than with wood, aluminum, stone and iron pipe,” she said.
Celebrating Sarah Yerkes’ 104th birthday with a reading by the poet herself. Recorded April 2022.
Sarah Yerkes shares what led her to poetry at age 96.
Yerkes’ Sculptures
