Test piece, Sheryda warrener

Coach House Books, 2023

Sheryda Warrener’s Test Piece is a meditation on both perspective and process. Consisting of five poems interspersed with images of rooms and spaces overlaid with text, it invites the reader to partake in each poem’s creation. In this, Warrener emphasizes the value of the creative process and the impermanence of perspective as a work continues to shift and reform in the eyes of the viewer. So too Warrener’s words, which take on new meaning with each read, making this a collection to return to time and time again.

—Erin Brenneman, Stratford